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The Agile Organization
How to Build an Engaged, Innovative and Resilient Business
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The key to retaining competitive advantage in a volatile business world is agility. The third edition of The Agile Organization shows how to develop capabilities across the organization to adapt.
With helpful checklists, tips and advice, this is a practical blueprint to building both agility and resilience at individual, team and organizational levels. It covers how to design agile organizations as well as how to implement agile models into existing organizations and people practices. There is guidance on how agility can be applied to talent management, flexible working patterns and the importance of mobilizing and energizing employees for change.
This edition contains new material on agile mindsets and enterprise agile planning, alongside how hybrid forms of working can enhance resilience. There is also extended material on how inclusion and wellbeing initiatives can support individual resilience and innovation to improve performance across the organization. Case studies include ING, the University of California, Berkeley, the UK National Health Service (NHS) and SNC-Lavalin's Atkins business. This book is an essential read for HR and OD specialists, senior leaders and managers who want transform their organization and build an agile business.
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Table of contents
- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Chapter - 01: Why go agile?;
- Chapter - 02: The resiliently agile organization;
- Chapter - 03: Agile strategizing;
- Chapter - 04: Agile linkages;
- Chapter - 05: Designing for agility;
- Chapter - 06: Agile implementation;
- Chapter - 07: Agile people processes;
- Chapter - 08: Nurturing employee engagement and resilience;
- Chapter - 09: HR’s role in building a high-performance work climate;
- Chapter - 10: Building a change-able culture;
- Chapter - 11: Agile leadership;
- Chapter - 12: Conclusion;
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With the post-pandemic shocks to our way of life and working, we now face a very uncertain geopolitical world economically, environmentally and to maintain peace. We now have to prepare ourselves for a future we cannot foresee.
Agility, resilience and speed have become essential in our lives. Linda's latest book describes and illustrates ways forward for organizations and people to adapt to this ever-changing world. It is a 'must read' for leaders in all walks of life, to work with their people to prepare to change and adapt to this new reality. It defines a new social contract between organizations and its people, including customers. Agility is no longer a buzz word it is a mindset we must all adopt.
- This is a timely revision of this insightful book by Linda Holbeche. The book draws on multiple perspectives and case examples to support why and how organizations and individuals should invest in building an agile organization. A strong case is built for how agility, flexibility and resilience are all concepts that need to be given equal focus by organizational leaders; the reflective questions and checklists presented in each chapter clearly support this.
- Dr Christina Evans, Independent Career Coach and Educator
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