The Agile Leader
Kogan Page Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-3986-0072-0 (ISBN)
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.
Dr Simon Hayward is Founder and CEO of Cirrus, a leading provider of leadership development and change programmes for large organizations. He has a wealth of strategic leadership experience gained over 30 years in consulting, with clients that include BT, HSBC, Marks and Spencer, Standard Chartered Bank and Three. Dr Simon Hayward has been featured in the Financial Times, Management Today, Forbes, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Fast Company, BBC Radio 4 and Sky News. He is an Honorary Professor at Manchester Business School and is based in Manchester, England.
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
"Digital is both disrupting and revolutionizing the way we work. Adopting a more agile style of leadership enables leaders to reshape organizations so people can flourish in a future augmented by new technology. The insights in this book will help leaders to transform the nature of work by enabling people to learn and adapt at speed, leading to greater efficiency"
"In a world that's getting faster, we need to move quickly, learn and adapt. This book provides a blueprint for a more agile style of leadership to help you focus on customers and stay ahead in a highly competitive and unpredictable environment. Highly recommended."
"This book describes how getting the right mix of leadership and teamwork wins every time. Whether we are running a global business or a famous football club, the need for agile leadership has never been so acute. Great leaders build confidence, change the rules, and focus on the priorities that will make the difference. I can't recommend this book too highly."
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 400 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3986-0072-5 / 1398600725 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3986-0072-0 / 9781398600720 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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