How To Lead Self-Managing Teams?: A business novel on changing leadership from sheepherding to beekeeping

More and more organizations introduce self-managing teams. Managers need to initiate and guide that transformation, although it’s often unclear what their roles will be afterwards. And if a manager does not change with it, they could become an obstacle instead of a motivating factor.This book tells you the story of Mark, an executive in a large organization that has introduced self-management. During a short holiday, Mark visited his grandfather who told him how he had switched careers from being a shepherd to a beekeeper and what he had learned along the way. These lessons applied to Mark’s situation surprisingly well. The chat helped Mark make a list of the things he needed to change and implement. The key lesson is to ’un-manage’ and unlearn old habits. This book explains how.

Rini van Solingen is CTO of Prowareness and professor in Global Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He is also author of The Power of Scrum and Scrum for Managers.