Creating leaders
A core principle for creating successful product development organisations is to activate more persons into the value creation. Where traditional factories might have been successful by using a few talented persons to automate processes and then engage many persons in following instructions to maintain those processes, product development, especially that of digital products require all available brain power to engage in value creation. And in a traditional hierarchical organization (which is still very common) the most of the brains are at the bottom and not at the top.
The first priority of the product owner must be to support persons to make their own decisions and make sure teams are as autonomous as possible. When you help creating leaders you actually solve three problems at once:
On this road you might face struggles. Just as Brian in the clip below is followed by persons expecting instructions even the slightest insecurity might cause additional questions. There is a mindset and self confidence that needs to be built so that team members understand that they have options to act. If you escalate to fast on this journey your team will feel abandoned rather than empowered and that is likely to result in frustration and a slow path to performance.
This blog post was heavily inspired by Monty Pythons "Life of Brian" which was brought to my attention by my colleague Gavin Shetly, thanks Gavin you are a great source of inspiration!
As a reward for making it to the end you are rewarded with an absolutely absurd clip where Brian asks his followers to "fuck off", and they respond with the question "how shall we fuck off?":
The first priority of the product owner must be to support persons to make their own decisions and make sure teams are as autonomous as possible. When you help creating leaders you actually solve three problems at once:
- You maximize the benefit of available creativity and give it potential to grow.
- You increase motivation in the team to engage because creative persons tend to like not being told what to do.
- You decrease the burden of management, because leading persons that needs detailed instructions is a burden and such a team will be limited by your own skills.
On this road you might face struggles. Just as Brian in the clip below is followed by persons expecting instructions even the slightest insecurity might cause additional questions. There is a mindset and self confidence that needs to be built so that team members understand that they have options to act. If you escalate to fast on this journey your team will feel abandoned rather than empowered and that is likely to result in frustration and a slow path to performance.
This blog post was heavily inspired by Monty Pythons "Life of Brian" which was brought to my attention by my colleague Gavin Shetly, thanks Gavin you are a great source of inspiration!
As a reward for making it to the end you are rewarded with an absolutely absurd clip where Brian asks his followers to "fuck off", and they respond with the question "how shall we fuck off?":
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