Management 3.0 is a must-read for any aspiring leader in the knowledge industry. If you are working with a skilled, thinking, innovating team - or wondering your work force is not that, and want to make your team do all that, read this book. All the classics from MBA school treat humans as predictable machines. The world has come a long way in understanding how people are motivated - starting from a education context to that of an organization. We used to think linearly, then came systems thinking, making us more large-frame, cyclical thinkers. Complexity thinking is the final frontier, for now, that broadens our reasoning from the cause-effect predictability to complex empiricism.Jurgen has attempted here to summarize the myriad theories and research from game theory to complexity thinking to present a broad canvas that describes the entire framework of what motivates people and how to enable a team to do its best. He focuses on each aspect of the team - from goal setting, norming, storming, performing, scaling/growing and finally, the inevitable changing. While doing all this, he also rightly calls our attention on why models cant describe everything, and gives the guidelines on how to adapt ourselves as leaders in this setting.While Jurgen goes to length describing various connected theories, the main thrust of the book is on complexity science - self-organization, goals, agents and emergent behavior in a system. Also, he touches upon the philosophy of Agile in connection with this management 3.0 framework, which having originated in the IT industry has universal applicability.So, for its totally worth repeating, if you want to be known as a great leader in the knowledge industry, add this book to your shelf - read it now and keep referring it. As the first proper management book I've read (at least to completion) it's difficult to compare this to other management books. However I still believe this is a fantastic book.The first part of the book presents a general overview of Management, Agile Software Development and Complexity Theory. The second part alternates between theory and practise of Jurgen's model.For me this is a very different view of management than I've previously been aware of, and having an interest in Complexity Theory I found it easy to understand the ideas.Also this must be one of the most heavily researched book I've ever read. In some places it feels more like a Scientific Paper on the State of the Art of Management Theory. Just the number and diverse range of references is astonishing.I would recommend this book to anyone who has any interest at all in the theory and practise of management and leadership.
What do You think about Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Adobe Reader) (2010)?
Rereading Management 3.0 to see what my unprepared mind ignored the last time around...
—littleangel2703
Very interesting view on how to manage teams in creative professions.
—Kim
A core read for anyone in the agile fraternity
—Taylor_D
