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# Elastic Leadership PDF Excerpt

Free excerpt

# Elastic Leadership book excerpt

You can read an excerpt of the book on this page, or download a PDF file here.

 ![Cover of Elastic Leadership by Roy Osherove](https://www.elasticleadership.com/img/cover-400.jpg)

## What’s in the excerpt

1. Brief contents & preface
2. Chapter 1Striving toward a Team Leader Manifesto
3. Chapter 2Matching leadership styles to team phases

[Download the PDF excerpt (20 pages, 3.7 MB)](https://www.elasticleadership.com/s/Elastic-Leadership.pdf) [Buy the full book (opens in a new tab)](https://www.manning.com/books/elastic-leadership?a_aid=iserializable&a_bid=4b8caedc)

Publisher

Manning Publications

Published

October 2016

Pages

240

ISBN

9781617293085

## Read it here

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Can’t see the PDF here? [Open the excerpt PDF](https://www.elasticleadership.com/s/Elastic-Leadership.pdf) (20 pages, 3.7 MB).


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/