Get your free PDF copy of the Manifesto for Human(e) Leadership!

In 2018, in the midst of the agile trans­for­ma­tion of the BMW Group IT, we were deeply inter­est­ed in the ques­tion of how lead­er­ship might look in an agile orga­ni­za­tion. After a work­shop with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from all lev­els of the hier­ar­chy, from the work­ing lev­el up to senior man­age­ment, we had the idea to cap­ture our results in the form of phras­es like in the Man­i­festo for Agile Soft­ware Devel­op­ment, e.g., “Indi­vid­u­als and inter­ac­tions over process­es and tools.”

I was already churn­ing out a blog post every week at that point, and I was total­ly up for this chal­lenge. In the week after this work­shop, I came up with the fol­low­ing six the­ses that became known as the Man­i­festo for Human(e) Lead­er­ship.

Unleash­ing human poten­tial
over employ­ing human resources.

Diver­si­ty and dis­sent
over con­for­mi­ty and consensus.

Pur­pose and trust
over com­mand and control.

Con­tri­bu­tions to net­works
over posi­tions in hierarchies.

Grow­ing lead­ers
over lead­ing followers.

Coura­geous­ly explor­ing the new
over effi­cient­ly exploit­ing the old.

Over the next year, I wrote a lot more con­tent, explor­ing those the­ses in more detail and adding more aspects (includ­ing two work­shop for­mats). To make every­thing eas­i­er to find and share the ideas wide­ly, I decid­ed to put every­thing togeth­er and pub­lish it as a small book on Ama­zon. The Ger­man ver­sion was released in 2019 and the Eng­lish ver­sion fol­lowed in 2020.

With near­ly 6,000 copies sold, I’m even more com­mit­ted to pro­mot­ing the ideas in the Man­i­festo as much as pos­si­ble – espe­cial­ly in my inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty. As a result, you all now have the chance to grab your free PDF copy of this book here:

Man­i­festo for Human(e) Leadership

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I hope you have as much fun in read­ing as I had in writing!

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