The Agile Leader

How to Create an Agile Business in the Digital Age
2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-3986-0071-3
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hayward, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hayward, Simon
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.

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.