This page is a motley collection of online resources of interest to an agile Open manager, as we find them. We will try to impose some order but there are a lot.
[Updated September 2024. It is time we recognised that since the book
The agile Manager (small a) was published, we have changed to use the term
Open Management. We have confessed that we wish we had used the word Open when we published that book. The book is what it is, but let’s update this page to reflect the better terminology. And to reflect that we have published multiple books from Teal Unicorn now.]
You can find resources specific to our book the agile Manager on their own page here.
In the unlikely event that you still read books there is a reading list here.
On this page:
Links about management
Links about humanity
Links about systems
Links about agility
Links about management
Links about humanity
- Spiral Dynamics https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
- Culture 1 of 7: the subject, Dave Snowden https://cognitive-edge.com/blog/culture-the-subject/ First of a series https://cognitive-edge.com/blog/category/culture/
Links about systems
- Why being smart is not enough — the social skills and structures of tackling complexity, Mieke van der Bijl https://medium.com/school-of-system-change/why-being-smart-is-not-enough-the-social-skills-and-structures-of-tackling-complexity-ad6e4689437e
- Managing complexity and chaos in times of crisis, Snowden https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/managing-complexity-and-chaos-times-crisis-field-guide-decision-makers-inspired-cynefin-framework
- We like these links about four of the five focusing steps of Theory of Constraints
- https://futurestateengineering.com/theory-of-constraints-step-1-identifying-the-constraint/
- https://futurestateengineering.com/exploiting-the-constraint/
- https://futurestateengineering.com/subordinating-to-the-constraint/
- https://futurestateengineering.com/elevating-the-constraint/
Links about agility
- ‘Complex Acts of Knowing – Paradox and Descriptive Self Awareness’, Dave Snowden, Journal of Knowledge Management, Special Issue, July 2002. https://cognitive-edge.com/articles/complex-acts-of-knowing-paradox-and-descriptive-self-awareness/