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Download or read book Leadership Imperatives for an Agile Business written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Hayward
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398600733
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (986 download)
Download or read book The Agile Leader written by Simon Hayward and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever feel like you and your team are stretched across multiple demands or that the goal posts change constantly? Never before have businesses felt so acutely this constant need to adapt, pivot and change tack. This book will teach you how you can not only survive in the context of digital transformation, but also thrive and grow, by adopting a powerful agile leadership model. This new and revised edition of The Agile Leader lays out clearly in eight steps how agile leaders empower their team to make decision quickly, evaluate correctly where the biggest opportunities are and mould their strategies around market dynamics and ever-changing needs. If there's one leadership skill that successful businesses have in spades, it's the ability to enable teams to adapt and grow within complex eco-systems of clients, partners and suppliers. By focusing on teamwork and collaboration, as well as promoting shared decision making and ruthless prioritizing, leaders can transform the way they work as well as how their teams function to make them more malleable. Simon Hayward is an agile leadership expert. In this new edition of this successful book, he distills years of leadership and agile research into an actionable 8 step plan, brought to life with examples of agile digital businesses. Learn how to become agile and make digital transformation and delivery part of your business as usual.
Author : Edward Morrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119578663
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Strategic Doing written by Edward Morrison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten skills for agile leadership Complex challenges are all around us—they impact our companies, our communities, and our planet. This complexity and the emergence of networks is changing the practice of strategic management. Today’s leaders need to understand how to design and guide complex collaborations to accelerate innovation and change—collaborations that cross boundaries both inside and outside organizations. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You’ll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won’t find anywhere else. • Unleash the power of true collaboration • Learn and master the 10 skills of agile leadership • Apply individual skills to targeted situations • Introduces a new discipline of leadership strategy Filled with compelling case studies, Strategic Doing outlines a new discipline of leadership strategy specifically designed for open, loosely-connected networks.
Author : Linda A. Hill
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 142217235X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Being the Boss written by Linda A. Hill and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate, by mastering three imperatives: · Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others. · Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment. · Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide for not only first-time managers but all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.
Author : Ron Eringa
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0137591454
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Professional Agile Leader written by Ron Eringa and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hone Your Agile Leadership Skills to Help Your Organization Transform and Thrive To leverage the immense opportunities associated with accelerating change, organizations need teams capable of trying new ideas quickly, learning from their experiences, and adapting based on that learning. Helping these teams to grow and thrive requires agile leaders who support, inspire, and encourage, and who can leave behind the management skills of directing, monitoring, and rewarding or punishing. The Professional Agile Leader is a realistic, practical guide, written by experienced agile leaders who share their collective experiences in helping agile leaders to grow responsive and adaptive teams. They structure powerful lessons around a case study based on decades of experience helping agile leaders achieve and sustain agile transformation. Best of all, they never settle for high-level hand-waving--they show you how it's really done. Reignite once-successful organizations that have lost their way Form cross-functional teams and empower them with purpose Learn to let go, as your teams start taking more responsibility Overcome forces that want to reel you back into the "old rules" Realign the whole organization, since agile and traditional models can't coexist forever Achieve the most challenging goal of all: changing culture Great agile leaders aren't born that way--they're regular people who care deeply about helping others achieve shared goals and have discovered a better way to lead. Whatever your role in the organization, this guide will help you master those skills and mindsets a whole lot faster. "Drawing on vast experience, Ron, Kurt, and Laurens tease out practical tips and patterns for good leadership [and show] how a leader can help shape the environment for agile teams to succeed. . . . The narrative style of the book makes it easy to read, and I am sure there will be many times that you see yourself in it." --From the Foreword by Dave West, CEO and Product Owner, Scrum.org Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Author : Katja Fischer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668513848
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Leadership Development in an agile environment written by Katja Fischer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, University of applied sciences, Cologne, course: Master of Business Administration, language: English, abstract: The environment of companies changes and become more global, cross-culture and networked. Rapid changes in customer needs, global trends and technological possibilities create new challenges for companies and especially their leadership. The leaders are confronted with complex problems, unknown solutions and fast changing product requirements as well as a challenging role in the society because of prevailing crises in the economy. One common trend in this context is to be "agile" – not only according to software developing but also according to the whole organisation of a company. Many companies think they already are agile or are heading for agility but anyhow when a challenge arises the company can’t deliver. To become "agile" it is not sufficient to adapt new strategies, restructure the organisation or increase speed in selected teams or products. Much more it is to introduce agility in the whole organisation including the culture of the company. The questions for this assignment are: Has agility an impact on leadership? Do new skills for leaders exist? Is it necessary to design new leadership development concepts? To answer these questions the assignment starts with the definition of the changing environment, leadership and leadership development. After this it covers the topic of agility and the impact on leadership and leadership development.
Author : Bülent Akkaya
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800433824
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Agile Business Leadership Methods for Industry 4.0 written by Bülent Akkaya and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile Business Leadership Methods for Industry 4.0 is a collection of innovative research on new leadership styles that will develop agile managers and business leaders who can improve company success in the fast-paced environments created by Industry 4.0.
Author : Barry Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789881946812
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Agile Business Leader written by Barry Brewster and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's increasingly globalised and competitive business world, it is tough to get ahead. organizations can no longer rely on past successes for future survival. Leaders need to be motivational, inspirational and innovative in the creation of new approaches and new products - they need to be agile! While there is no lack of material and literature available on the theories and skills of leadership, what is missing is agility in the way leaders put these theories into practice. Today's business leaders are required to wear many hats and they need to know which hat to wear at what time and how to wear it effectively. For this to happen, we need to enter a new generation of change, beyond incremental and even transformational change. We desperately need to enter the era of Agile Change, where leaders leverage the knowledge and wisdom already present within an organization. Agile Change means focusing on the image of a desired future to produce increased energy levels and a belief in future organizational success. Through embracing Agile Change and becoming an Agile Business Leader, leaders are empowered to seize responsibility for their organization's growth and development. Importantly, the tools and concepts required to become an Agile Business Leader are flexible and suitable for any leadership role or organization, regardless of industry or size. The Agile Business Leader approach to leadership has become a necessity in today's business environment. Corporations that have successfully embraced the approach include: American Airlines, the largest airline in the world AS Watson, the world's largest health and beauty retailer GroupM, part of the WPP media conglomerate Novozymes, a world leader in bio-innovations Leighton Asia, one of Asia's leading construction and mining contractors Aedas, the second-largest architectural firm in the world United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a federal government agency charged with protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment
Author : William B. Joiner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787979139
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Leadership Agility written by William B. Joiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility. Significantly, only 10% have mastered the level of agility needed for consistent effectiveness in our turbulent era of global competition. Written in an engaging, down-to-earth style, this book not only provides a map that guides readers in identifying their current level of agility. It also provides practical advice and concrete examples that show managers and leadership development professionals how they can bring greater agility to the initiatives they take every day.
Author : Simon Hayward
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749482745
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)
Download or read book The Agile Leader written by Simon Hayward and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of political unrest, protectionism and economic uncertainties, business leaders must assess, react and strategize rapidly, with enough responsiveness to re-calibrate should circumstances change. The Agile Leader exposes how leaders can safely guide their teams to organizational stability and prosperity through agile leadership and building an agile culture. When presented with key moments of choice, agility allows them to move quickly and responsively, and offer coping strategies for this unprecedented rate of change. By adopting agile ways of working that focus on facilitating mental agility, ruthlessly prioritizing, devolving decision-making and investing in customer research, leaders enable organizational learning and drive innovation. With globally diverse and exciting case studies from top businesses including the British Fashion Council, Standard Chartered and Three, Dr Simon Hayward distils years of leadership research and consultancy work into an actionable agile leadership programme, which will deliver effective results for your business. The Agile Leader is an invaluable book for leaders looking to adapt and continuously evolve to match a complex business world.
Author : Peter Koning
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0135225132
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Agile Leadership Toolkit written by Peter Koning and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, Proven Tools for Leading and Empowering High-Performing Agile Teams A leader is like a farmer, who doesn’t grow crops by pulling them but instead creates the perfect environment for the crops to grow and thrive. If you lead in organizations that have adopted agile methods, you know it’s crucial to create the right environment for your agile teams. Traditional tools such as Gantt charts, detailed plans, and internal KPIs aren’t adequate for complex and fast-changing markets, but merely trusting employees and teams to self-manage is insufficient as well. In Agile Leadership Toolkit, longtime agile leader Peter Koning provides a practical and invaluable steering wheel for agile leaders and their teams. Drawing on his extensive experience helping leaders drive more value from agile, Koning offers a comprehensive toolkit for continuously improving your environment, including structures, metrics, meeting techniques, and governance for creating thriving teams that build disruptive products and services. Koning thoughtfully explains how to lead agile teams at large scale and how team members fit into both the team and the wider organization. Architect environments that help teams learn, grow, and flourish for the long term Get timely feedback everyone can use to improve Co-create goals focused on the customer, not the internal organization Help teams brainstorm and visualize the value of their work to the customer Facilitate team ownership and accelerate team learning Support culture change, and design healthier team habits Make bigger changes faster This actionable guide is for leaders at all levels—whether you’re supervising your first agile team, responsible for multiple teams, or lead the entire company. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Author : IntroBooks Team
Publisher : IntroBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Agile Leadership written by IntroBooks Team and published by IntroBooks. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile leadership is the art for self-organizing to create the right sense. It is an atmosphere where agile teams are working together, learning from each other, getting users quick feedback and concentrating on quality and continuous learning. Agile leaders neither micro-manage people, nor do they establish complete privilege. In modern management modules, to strike a balance between instability and stern discipline is critical to deal with. It is often challenging to develop and maintain a congenial environment with due adherence to cultural heritage, taking onus, mindset, suggestions and expectations for the long term objectives. In a vast array of situations, especially in fresh, evolving and uncertain situations, the leader needs to handle with exemplary abilities. It is associated with four leadership styles (Leadership models) adopted by people who have the capacity and agility to operate in any mode (the thought process framework) and most significantly they are able to observe the proceedings from the viewpoints of other models. It is this kind of ability to deliberate in various ways that reflects the versatility of such leaders. It is also implemented as the main management paradigm for adaptive and progressive organizations in the perceptions of Agile Business Management.
Author : Karim Harbott
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523090065
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The 6 Enablers of Business Agility written by Karim Harbott and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting the latest agile tools and practices won't be enough to respond to rapid market change. Leaders must first lay the groundwork by creating the right environment for these tools to work. Many managers struggle to install the underlying organizational operating system for business agility. High-performing agile organizations depend on the strength of six key enabling factors: leadership, culture, structure, people, governance, and ways of working. This book explains why these factors are important and how they work together to increase organizational agility. Real-world examples, stories, and tools will help leaders get realistic about the scope of changes needed in their organizations and show them how to get started. Karim Harbott does not offer a book of recipes. Instead, he focuses on mindset, principles, and general patterns. This book summarizes of the most important factors in increasing organizational agility and why they work, which leaders will need to consider in a so-called agile transformation. Because every organization is different, each will have its own route to agility and high performance. Managers will need to tackle all the areas that are crucial to creating an environment in which any chosen approach can work.
Author : Stephen J. Zaccaro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000930688
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization written by Stephen J. Zaccaro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization builds on existing knowledge in the leadership, teams, and strategic management literatures to examine and explore how senior leadership teams drive the dynamic capabilities of organizations. Organizational agility is a key dimension of organizational performance. This volume focuses on senior leadership team processes and attributes that facilitate organizational agility and the organization’s capacity to perform and rapidly pivot in response to shifting strategic demands. Chapters summarize the current state of knowledge, examine past research and theory, define research and theoretical gaps, and consider how to address these gaps. In so doing, they offer an understanding of how senior leadership teams drive and enable organizational activity. The book is essential reading for researchers and professionals looking to understand the intersection of leadership, team dynamics, organizational psychology, organizational psychology, and strategic management, particularly in relation to organizational agility and the senior leadership team.
Author : Amy Kates
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1789667801
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Networked, Scaled, and Agile written by Amy Kates and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable. Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world. By outlining the tension between the need for agility/differentiation and scale/integration, the book offers a new way to think about this debate using the models of the Tower (vertical integration) and the Square (horizontal integration). It addresses the role of the leadership team and how the organization design process can build C-suite leaders and successors. Each chapter concludes with a series of reflection questions for leaders as well as a summary of key concepts and tips. Including case studies from global organizations, Networked, Scaled, and Agile reveals how organization design can address three of the biggest business challenges organizations face today: how to build a new capability across the entire enterprise; how to make the entire organization more customer-centric; and how to allow for faster innovation.
Author : Eileen Dowse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789881946836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Agile Business Leader written by Eileen Dowse and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the leadership style that works in every situation. The leader who can listen, delegate, involve, decide, adapt, respond, and direct is the one who is most successful over time. In an era filled with confusion, contradictions, and corruption, the world is calling for Agile Business Leaders. The Agile Business Leader series of books recognize the four basic roles highly successful leaders are able to play in the world today: THE SPECIALIST: Specialists are always asking, "Do I have all the information and knowledge needed to make it happen?" "What does it take to build a quality system?" and "Where should we go to find out?" Specialists can quickly analyze a situation, make decisions, and act on opportunities. THE CHAMPION: Champions are always asking, "What are my strengths?" "Am I using my networks well?" and "Do I have the courage to achieve my expectations?" THE ENABLER: Enablers are always asking, "Are we building on the diversity of the group?" "Do we have trust to deliver outcomes?" and "Who needs to be involved?" THE STRATEGIST: Strategists are always asking, "What's next?" "Where else?" and "What if?" The purpose of this bookpure and simple, examines each of THE SPECIALIST'S traits and competencies more closely. It includes a wealth of additional information to our introduction book, THE AGILE BUSINESS LEADER, providing you opportunities and tools for practicing specific skills. This book is designed to enable you to do your job better, faster, and with more agility. Get ready to become more effective as a leader by reading this book.
Author : Sabine Pfeiffer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030739945
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Agile Imperative written by Sabine Pfeiffer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work. Increasingly, this is addressed by the idea of 'agility.' From its beginning, agile work has claimed to be a radically different approach which allows organisations to react flexibly to changing environmental demands whilst also offering a ‘people' centered approach to management. While the literature often examines agile instruments from a business perspective, this edited collection advances the discussion of the efficacy of agile working, by applying a more critical social science perspective.The chapters scrutinize whether agility is just a discursive imperative, or whether it is in fact a genuine organizational and institutional strategy that is meant to better deal with complexity and volatility. The answers to these questions can vary at different levels, and the editors therefore examine agility at the level of teams, organizations and societies. By assembling different perspectives on the sustainability and virtue of agile instruments, and by bringing together international scholars from a variety of disciplines, the project stimulates a comparative discussion.
