Table of Contents

 

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

Next up

Summary

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