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Check out\xa0\xa0275.\xa0 The SPaMCAST 275 features our essay on leadership. Leaders and leadership are important, perhaps more important with Agile and lean techniques that no longer use command and control management techniques. Even if you believe that leaders are born, the ability to lead can be honed and developed. Managers typically draw on their hierarchal position for their organizational power and use that power to control those they manage which has been shown in the long term to be less effective and efficient. Leadership is import because leaders generate more value enabling people through providing a path towards their vision. The delivery of value is why organizations exist and why projects are done therefore leadership is not a luxury but a necessity.\nKim Pries provides a column this week focusing on paradoxes. Kim\u2019s essay is extremely thought provoking and is a must listen for change agents.\nRemember to register for the "Influential Agile Leader" events led by Johanna Rothman and Gil Broza.\xa0 Check out the full details at\xa0\nGet in\xa0\xa0with us anytime or leave a comment on the\xa0. Help support the SPaMCAST by reviewing and rating it on\xa0. It helps people find the cast. Like us on\xa0\xa0while you\u2019re at it.\nNext week the SPaMCAST features my interview with Penny Pullan about teams.\xa0 Teams are a central component of today\u2019s development environment. Improving our understanding of how teams work is critical to any development framework and improvement program.\nThe Software Process and Measurement Cast has a sponsor.\nAs many you know I do at least one webinar for the\xa0(ITMPI) every year. The ITMPI provides a great service to the IT profession. ITMPI's mission is to pull together the expertise and educational efforts of the world's leading IT thought leaders and to create a single online destination where IT practitioners and executives can meet all of their educational and professional development needs. The ITMPI offers a premium membership that gives members unlimited free access to 400 PDU accredited webinar recordings, and waives the PDU processing fees on all live and recorded webinars.\xa0\xa0The Software Process and Measurement Cast some support if you sign up\xa0. All the revenue our sponsorship generates goes for bandwidth, hosting and new cool equipment to create more and better content for you. Support the SPaMCAST and learn from the ITMPI.\nShameless Ad for my book!\n\xa0co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book\xa0.\nAvailable in English and Chinese.