Creative Disruption: A Guide for the Perplexed
Fire the project managers … do DevOps … hire plenty of agile coaches. Agile leadership books, guidance, and carnival barkers abound. However, with much hype to sort through and little guidance, how can you separate the snake oil from the real thing? How can you develop a North Star to guide you through agile, DevOps, and organizational transformation? Roland Cuellar shares lessons based on two decades of experience consulting with leading executives worldwide. Rooted in a foundational philosophy of self-management that evolved into a cutting-edge approach, Roland shares an essential roadmap that is being used at companies including Motley Fool, Zappos, Virgin, and LinkedIn to revolutionize their management approach and drive creative disruption. Learn how to create a “results only” workplace with a flatter organizational structure, work anywhere flexibility, participatory profit sharing, and delegated hiring and firing. Explore the leadership journey complete with its fears, challenges, and tribulations as well as its joys, triumphs—and unassailable business results.
For the past twelve years, Roland Cuellar (kway-are) has focused exclusively on agile software development and lean business process improvement. During that time, he has worked on enterprise agile adoption with clients including Capital One, CNBC, Westinghouse Nuclear Power, Nationwide Insurance, US Citizenship and Immigration, and the US Courts. Roland has worked with a number of start-ups and early-stage ventures to help accelerate delivery. He has spoken at numerous conferences and published articles on agile, portfolio management, quality, and kanban. Roland has an affinity for lean methods and believes that, with willing and open-minded management and team members, we can always discover better ways to deliver.