Zurich Radical Management Gathering for Top Management

Please join Peter Stevens and Steve Denning to Establish A Radical Management Mindset and Reinvent Your Business to Thrive in the 21st Century

Abstract

In the 21st century, there are only two kinds of organization. -- Only two? -- Only two: Those who delight their customers and those who do not. The former will flourish and prosper. The rest will stagnate and eventually die.

Everywhere the challenges are the same: Speed. Collaboration. Innovation. Growth or stagnation? The problem: the management approaches which created tremendously successful companies during the first 70 years of the 20th century don't work any more. Traditional management systematically stifles innovation, demotivates staff and neglects customers.

And customers are more fickle than ever. They have reliable information about their options: unless they are delighted, and they can and will go elsewhere. Existing companies stagnate or worse while new companies take the lion's share of the profits.

For the past three years I have organized the Scrum Breakfasts and Lean Agile Scrum Conferences in Zurich to help executive and operational project leaders deliver better results – in the form of higher productivity, meeting deadlines or creating better products. This year, I will extend that tradition with this special gathering for top management with Steve Denning.

This Gathering is for leaders who want a radically better approach to management. They want effective change leadership to transform their companies into organizations that can thrive in the 21st century. They want to be among the winners.

What you will learn: In-depth learning about what it takes to generate the continuous innovation needed to delight your customers. You will learn the five big shifts:

the shift in the goal of the organization from making money for shareholders to delighting the customer
the shift in the role of managers from controllers of individuals to enablers of self-organizing teams
the shift in the way work is coordinated from bureaucracy to dynamic linking
the shift from value to values
the shift from top-down command to conversation

You will understand why these shifts are the inevitable consequence of basic changes in the marketplace and the workplace. You will learn how to use storytelling to revolutionize the workplace and establish a radical management mindset. The day will focus on co-creating the "big picture" principles of radical management as well as the practices involved in implementing the principles. It will include what is involved in creating an environment that brings everyone along. The last session will focus on working together in applying those principles and practices to your setting and showing you how you can take this forward.

When: Monday, September 12, 2011

Program:

	Coffee and Registration	8.30 to 9.00
	Gathering:	9.00 to 17.00
	Après-Workshop:	17.00 to 18.30

	It is our pleasure to invite you to an Apéro after the event for informal networking.

Pre-requisities: Participation is by invitation only. Conversational English is essential.

Registration: The number of participants is strictly limited and open to top management and selected thought leaders only. Please include the details of your invitation under “Comments”.

CHF 1'490.-- / pro Person. Additional participants on the same invoice receive a 10% discount.

Peter Stevens

Peter Stevens is a thought leader on Scrum, and Lean and Agile Software Development in Switzerland. He was a founding Partner, Scrum Trainer and Coach for DasScrumTeam AG and initiator of the Lean Agile Scrum Interest Group of the SwissICT. His focus is on helping companies change themselves for the better. He writes the popular Scrum Breakfast blog and highly ranked articles including, 10 Contracts for your next Agile Software Project and Explaining Story Points to Management. Peter was one of the original practice partners at the first Washington Gathering on Radical Management.

Steve Denning

Steve Denning is a bestselling author and thought leader in leadership, management, innovation, and organizational storytelling. From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing program. In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos).

He has written three bestselling books on management and leadership: The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010), The Secret Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and The Leader's Guide to Storytelling (Jossey-Bass, 2005). Radical Management was selected by 800-CE0-READ as one of the best five books on management in 2010. He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia on leadership, innovation, business narrative and most recently, radical management. He issues a daily Forbes blog on leadership and management issues at http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/ His article, "Rethinking The Organization" has been selected as the Outstanding Article of 2010 in the journal "Strategy & Leadership."