The Agile Leader

Unleash the power of agile thinking methodologies to lead your team through the chaos of digital transformation and growth.

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.

Offers readers personal checklists, diagnostic questions and exercises to apply the key take-aways to their individual business

Autorentext
Dr Simon Hayward is the founder and CEO of Cirrus, a leading provider of leadership development and change programmes to large and ambitious organisations. He has a wealth of strategic leadership experience gained over 30 years in consulting. He is a dynamic thought leader, valued by many major clients, including BT, HSBC, Marks and Spencer, Standard Chartered Bank and Three as a trusted advisor and partner. Simon has been featured in the Financial Times, Management Today, Forbes, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Fast Company, BBC Radio 4 and Sky News.

Inhalt

• Section - ONE: Agile leadership and organizations;
• • Chapter - 01: What is agile leadership?;
  • Chapter - 02: Being an agile leader;
  • Chapter - 03: Agile ways of working;
  • Chapter - 04: Barriers to agility;
• Section - TWO: Becoming an agile leader;
• • Chapter - 05: Safe to explore;
  • Chapter - 06: Disrupt and innovate;
  • Chapter - 07: Prioritization and performance;
  • Chapter - 08: Agile execution;
• Section - THREE: Making it happen inside and out;
• • Chapter - 09: Creating an agile enterprise;
  • Chapter - 10: Agility and the network society;
  • Chapter - 12: Index