Brad Murphy

Middle Management – Key to Unlocking Scaled Agility and Innovation

A large enterprise seeking to scale Agile and Lean operating models, faced a well intended, but misguided, view of middle management as the impediment to forward progress.  The problem is that middle management is absolutely necessary.  An approach backed by decades of business and social science research allowed Comcast to use the middle to unlock the latent innovation and productivity within employees and teams.
Join Gear Stream & Comcast as they share their learning from two years of providing Adaptive Management workshops to middle managers who are supporting teams adopting lean, agile, and DevOps practices. Learn from the challenges that others face and how they solve them using techniques that provide managers with roles that improve engagement, create safe, collaborative cultures, and establish high performing human networks.