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The book sounds helpful to me although I am not working in the organization.
A group project is coming in the next few weeks, group of four people should be formed, as a 'powerless leaders', how can I solve some problems that two classmates will not co-operate together. Which management model(process) is suitable for a small group(software team)? And does the book cover how to be a good leader?
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Wow! These are challenging questions!

The book is about introducing new ideas and the target audience is "powerless leaders." I'm not sure it will help with management of teams.

Having said that, if the "idea" you want to "introduce" is "collaboration" -- to address the problem of the two members who do not seem to want to work together -- you could try some of the patterns. For example, Just Do It, that is, collaborate with these team members and, in working with them, show them the benefits.

It's a related process topic that you might introduce Scrum, an agile method. Scrum includes a daily Scrum meeting. I have seen this simple practice bring reluctant team members to the table to cooperate because they can see the result of the information exchange in the daily meeting. This is how you could Just Do It.

Go to my web site, www.lindarising.org and click on Articles. I have written papers for IEEE Software and STQE on Scrum meetings.

Good luck!
 
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In 2001, Kent Beck started work on a book with the working title "Reluctant Leader, Reluctant Follower" - about practices/patterns of emergent leadership in small groups. He stopped the project when he felt that there wasn't enough material for a book. The latest manuscript might nevertheless be interesting to you - you can download it from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeleadership/files/
 
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thanks for your suggestion and advice. The technique "Scrum" will be useful.
Ilja
Did Kent Beck want to write a book that contains about the style of Reluctant Leader?
I want to read about the script, however web linkage of extremeleadership does not work
How to be a Reluctant Leader is a great topic
 
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Originally posted by siu chung man:
I want to read about the script, however web linkage of extremeleadership does not work


It works for me. You need to first log in with your Yahoo! username and join the Yahoo! group before you can see the files section.
 
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thanks Lasse Koskela
it works now
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