--- title: "Stoos Gathering - Initial Thoughts" url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/stoos-gathering-initial-thoughts.md" canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/stoos-gathering-initial-thoughts.html" published: "2012-01-08T21:10:57+00:00" updated: "2012-01-08T22:06:38.347000+00:00" tags: ["stoos"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove's first thoughts on the Stoos Gathering, where 21 people from many management schools sought common ground to change management culture." 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/" --- # Stoos Gathering - Initial Thoughts This past weekend I was honored to be part of what I hope will be the beginning of a transformation in management culture. The start of a tipping point. [It was the Stoos Gathering](http://www.stoosnetwork.org/). that site contains a statement that represents one of the things we all agreed on. and that was pretty difficult.  We were twenty one very different individuals, form four continents, many different countries, and sometimes very different cultures of communication and leadership. In that single room, I believe we had no less than 15 different "ways" of doing things. The most powerful realization was that mostly people were not aware of each other's work. From [Radical Management](http://www.stevedenning.com/Radical-Management/default.aspx), [Spiral Dynamics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics), [Elastic Leadership](https://www.5whys.com/articles/), [Beyond Budgeting](http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Budgeting-Managers-Annual-Performance/dp/1578518660), [Management 3.0](http://www.noop.nl/), Scrum, XP, And many other ways of work - we had to find a common ground.  We had to find something that we can all agree on. and stoos wa the first step to doing that. I think that's way there was so little that we can call "conclusions" as a result - we had discovered how big the problem really is.   To begin to change management culture (which has remained the same for decades) we need to find common ground, and the stoos network was a good start. We also agreed to meet again , and to take other actions that will be detailed by others who documented them. But mostly it is about affecting the tipping point - of how to get the people on top, the people on the bottom and those in the middle - to change how they do things. From CEOs to knowledge workers.  That is a big task, and it's supposed to be scary.  Until we get more material out there, you might want to register [to the linkedin group here](http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Stoos-Network-4243114?gid=4243114&trk=hb_side_g) to get more news. ## Read next - [A Manifesto For Software Team Leaders - Take 1](https://www.5whys.com/articles/a-manifesto-for-software-team-leaders-take-1.html): The first draft of a manifesto for software team leaders, a list of leadership values open for reader comments, written ahead of the Stoos summit. - [Two Techniques to Avoid the Bus Factor In your Teams: Push and Pull](https://www.5whys.com/articles/two-techniques-to-avoid-the-bus-factor-in-your-teams-push-an.html): How push based and pull based learning help a team remove bus factors, told through an architect who fixed a search server without learning anything. - [Middle Management or puppet management?](https://www.5whys.com/articles/middle-management-or-puppet-management.html): Why many team leaders act as puppets for upper management, and why a team leader's real job is to make their own decisions and grow the team. --- ## 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). 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