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title: "The Elastic Leadership Model in a picture"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/2019/3/22/the-elastic-leadership-model-in-a-picture.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/2019/3/22/the-elastic-leadership-model-in-a-picture"
published: "2019-03-22T13:25:40.184000+00:00"
updated: "2019-03-22T13:26:15.005000+00:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A single diagram by Roy Osherove that shows the whole Elastic Leadership model in one picture, posted to invite reader feedback in the comments."
usage: "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/"
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# The Elastic Leadership Model in a picture

I realized that there isn’t one picture that shows the [entire elastic leadership model](https://elasticleadership.com/) with the right amount of details out there.

So I made one. Would love any feedback in the comments!

![ElasticLEadership-2.png](https://www.5whys.com/img/posts/d457f535-ElasticLEadership-2.png)

## Read next

- [Manifesto for Continuous Improvement](https://www.5whys.com/articles/manifesto-for-continuous-improvement.html): A photo shared by Andrew of 21apps, plus a one-line take on continuous improvement: when asked whether you are happy with things, the answer is always no.
- [Elastic Leadership Book Published](https://www.5whys.com/articles/elastic-leadership-book-published.html): A short announcement that the Elastic Leadership book is now officially published by Manning, with a link to the book page.
- [Stavanger Norway Elastic Leadership Course](https://www.5whys.com/articles/stavanger-norway-elastic-leadership-course.html): Announcement of Roy Osherove's two-day Lead Better Elastic Leadership course in Stavanger, Norway, on December 15-16, with a registration link.


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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

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### 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/