# Elastic Leadership

> The home of Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams, Roy Osherove's book (Manning) for software team leaders, and his Elastic Leadership workshop.

Elastic Leadership describes three team modes (survival, learning and self-organization) and what a team leader should do in each: getting out of survival mode, commitment language, delegation and growing people. This site has the book overview, a free excerpt, the two-day workshop and a contact page. Roy's team-leadership blog is at https://www.5whys.com.

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/

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. More: https://www.elasticleadership.com/about-roy.md (sites, social links, contact).

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## Pages

- [Home: Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams | Roy Osherove](https://www.elasticleadership.com/index.md): Site overview: every page and post with a short description and its Markdown link.
- [Elastic Leadership PDF Excerpt](https://www.elasticleadership.com/excerpt.md): Read a free 20-page excerpt of Elastic Leadership by Roy Osherove: the preface, chapter 1 (Striving toward a Team Leader Manifesto) and chapter 2 (Matching leadership styles to team phases).
- [Elastic Leadership Workshop](https://www.elasticleadership.com/training.md): A two-day Elastic Leadership workshop with Roy Osherove: the three team modes, getting out of survival mode, commitment language, delegation, clearing meetings and influence forces.
- [Contact](https://www.elasticleadership.com/contact.md): Contact Roy Osherove about Elastic Leadership: training, consulting or questions about leading software teams.

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