Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
1. Understanding elastic leadership
Chapter 1. Striving toward a Team Leader Manifesto
Why should you care
Don’t be afraid to become management
You can make time for the things you care about
Take the opportunity to learn new, exciting things every day
Experiment with human beings
Be more than one thing
Challenge yourself and your team
The Team Leader Manifesto
Next up
Summary
Chapter 2. Matching leadership styles to team phases
The role of the team leader
Growth through challenge
Challenge
You’re the bottleneck
Crunch time and leadership styles
Which leadership style should you choose
Command and control
Coach
Facilitator
Leadership styles and team phases
The three team phases
Survival phase (no time to learn)
Learning phase (learning to solve your own problems)
Self-organizing phase (facilitate, experiment)
When does a team move between phases
Chapter 3. Dealing with bus factors
Bus factors
A single point of failure
A bottleneck that slows things to a crawl
Reducing morale and inducing job insecurity
Discouraging team growth
Removing bus factors
Pairing and coaching
Bus factor as teacher
Avoid creating bus factors
Pairing