Reviews

We live in a fast-moving world. This book recognises that as a leader, you are on a constant journey. You cannot stand still. You need to stay abreast of new ideas and developments, to learn from others, to seek out opportunities and react to them. There is no finishing post. Being truly agile is about constantly evolving.
Vanda Murray OBE, Chairman, Fenner

To be agile, you need to try and test things. Not everything you try is going to work. Fail small, fail fast, and learn quickly. The Agile Leader demonstrates that agility is not just about creating things. It's also about ruthless prioritisation, managing risk, and knowing when to stop. This book helps leaders to make choices that define their business success on a day-to-day basis. If you're not moving forward and innovating and changing things, then your competitors will be.
Humphrey Cobbold, CEO, PureGym

With disruption happening in every industry and customer behaviour changing all the time, agility has become a highly-prized leadership skill. By reacting with agility to changing customer needs and focusing effort where it will have greatest impact, this book shows where leaders can gain quick wins as well as achieving long-term, sustainable success.
Roger Whiteside, CEO, Greggs

This book explains very clearly just what makes agile leadership different to traditional leadership. Making the shift towards a more agile style of leadership can be a huge challenge. Simon Hayward offers a range of insights and advice to help you to make that shift in a sustainable way.
Mark Allen, CEO, Dairy Crest

The digital explosion has had a huge impact on every industry. It has disrupted traditional ways of working. This book highlights the importance of customer focus, learning and collaboration in becoming increasingly innovative and agile. By adopting the principles of agile leadership, you can stay ahead of the competition.
Caroline Rush, CEO, British Fashion Council

This book demonstrates that by embracing agile leadership you can drive innovation and improved productivity. It is relevant to managers and leaders across all organisations as it promotes less hierarchical structures, collaboration, and devolved decision-making. This encourages a clearer focus on customer needs and enables more agile working by removing bureaucracy and encouraging empowerment.
Campbell Fitch, Global HR Director, Spire Global

This is an inspiring book which is both thought provoking and full of practical solutions and insight to help you to be an agile leader in a fast-moving environment.
Henny Braund, Chief Executive, Anthony Nolan

A thoughtful read for leaders and aspiring leaders on the balance between reflection and action needed for transforming, or even just surviving, in an age of digital overload.
Ben Page, Chief Executive, Ipsos MORI

Many startups begin life as very agile businesses but find it difficult to hold on to that agility as they grow. The Agile Leader shows how businesses can continue to evolve, adapt and innovate, no matter how big they become.
Tony Foggett, CEO, Code

Once again, Simon has managed to produce a book that is informative, challenging, and a good read.
Professor Catherine Cassell, Dean, Birmingham Business School

In The Agile Leader, Dr Simon Hayward draws on well documented research into agility, complexity, and distributed leadership. He distils this into some very practical advice to help managers and leaders deal with the everyday challenges of working in an unpredictable and fast-paced environment.
Professor Fiona Devine OBE, FcSS, FRSA, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

I have worked with Simon Hayward in various different formats and have found his insights on leadership to be enormously valuable.
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Manchester