- Illustrates the ground-breaking agile thinking methodology and unpicks how leaders adapt and react to a fast-changing business world
- Contains diverse and international case studies that include the British Fashion Council, Standard Chartered and Three
- Deals with crucial agile capabilities for leaders and businesses which have been shown to have a direct positive effect on organizational learning, innovation, resilience, speed to market and ultimately the bottom line
- Offers readers personal checklists, diagnostic questions and exercises to apply the key take-aways to their individual business and circumstance
The Agile Leader
How to Create an Agile Business in the Digital Age
Harness a powerful leadership programme based on agile thinking to best deal with the modern, uncertain, volatile and ambiguous business world.
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EAN: 9780749482732
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 235x157
224 pages
About the book
The Agile Leader exposes how leaders can safely guide their teams to organizational stability and prosperity through agile leadership and building an agile culture. With the rise of political unrest, protectionism and economic uncertainties, business leaders have to assess, react and implement strategies rapidly and with enough responsiveness to re-calibrate their efforts should circumstances change. 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 will allow organizational learning and drive innovation, thus enabling their teams to flourish in this new uncertain world.
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.
About the authors
Simon Hayward
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.
More about Simon Hayward
We need to disrupt existing business models to drive growth in our unpredictable world. This book can help leaders to think differently, to agitate for change and to take others on a transformation journey. It highlights the importance of culture, behaviour, and ways of working.
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