Download or read book Focused Fast and Flexible written by Nick Horney and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a business leader and strategist it falls to you to make sense of this complicated and turbulent world. You need to respond better and faster than ever before by using new tools and constructs that create higher value, more engagement, and greater longevity for your enterprise. But how are you going to accomplish this? The clear answer is that you and your organization must become agile-focused, fast, and flexible-where the alignment of people, processes, and technology continuously adapt to changing conditions. This capability will enable you to continually anticipate, monitor, and adjust to trends and the new dynamics, so you and your enterprise not only survive but thrive. Authors Nick Horney and Tom O'Shea offer you an approach developed in the course of more than fifteen years of study working with dozens of organizations and thousands of leaders. This research-based "next practice" model frames the essential drivers of organizational agility, identifies the processes that enable each driver, and clarifies the domains and potential outcomes of a serious effort to become agile.
Download or read book Focused Fast Flexible Creating Agility Advantage in a VUCA World written by Nick Horney and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VUCA Masters Practitioner s Guide written by Nicholas Horney and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VUCA Masters - Practitioner's Guide comes in a 2-part set that includes the book and a practitioner's guide for implementing the processes, resources, and insights provided in the book. You will appreciate the metaphor of Leadership Agility Fitness since it aligns with the annual health check-up that most of us experience as we identify gaps in our physical fitness and associated plans to enhance our physical fitness. The same is true for our Leadership Agility Fitness and the need to regularly receive our "check-up" through a research-based Leadership Agility assessment with a resulting Leadership Agility development plan focused on improving our Leadership Agility fitness scores.VUCA Master Profiles -- Examples of individuals profiled in the book as VUCA Masters include some in the past (Martin Luther King, Jr., Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, and others). In addition, current VUCA Masters profiled include (Matt Stevens - former Commodore with US Navy SEALs, Dr. Koshi Sidney Makai - Psychologist, Bill Gates, Lori Willis - Artist, and Hereditary Cancer survivor, and others). You will find that these VUCA Masters illustrate how we can demonstrate leadership agility in personal life as well as in business.You will find VUCA Masters to be an essential resource for the work you do to develop leaders with an agility mindset and associated leadership agility behavior. Leaders at all levels, Chief Learning Officers, Agile Coaches, Executive Coaches, and learning & development professionals will benefit from the VUCA Masters's set.
Download or read book VUCA Masters written by Nicholas Horney and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flexible Strategies in VUCA Markets written by Sanjay Dhir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the concepts of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) that are the core of various paradigms used in strategic management to understand competitive advantage as well as flexibility in organizational boundaries. It serves as a valuable reference resource in the area of VUCA markets. An increase in the levels and types of uncertainty has important implications potentially for the durability of a company’s advantages, the way firms learn and adapt, approaches for managing innovation and knowledge, and the attractiveness of different strategies and organizational models. In today’s world, strategic flexibility in VUCA is essential for business leaders to sustain market advantage and attain a clear vision amid the chaos. Business leaders who stay focused and are aware of external volatility as the prevalent characteristic are successful, while those who are not flexible in this VUCA world and lock themselves into fixed positions lose out. The book includes empirical and conceptual research papers along with case studies and models discussing strategies for emerging markets in volatile and uncertain environments. It also covers a variety of issues, including innovation, people and processes, financial management, and leadership and strategies in VUCA markets. Apart from research fraternity and academia, the contents of the book will be useful for practitioners as well as industry watchers.
Download or read book Agile Management and VUCA RR written by Bülent Akkaya and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile Management and VUCA-RR provides cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research and expert insight into the advancing technologies and new strategies being used in businesses settings, as well as for administrative and leadership roles in organizations.
Download or read book Managing in a VUCA World written by Oliver Mack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and addresses the need for broader knowledge and application of new concepts and frameworks to deal with unpredictable and rapid changing situations. The premises of VUCA can shape all aspects of an organization. To cover all areas, the book is divided into six sections. Section 1 acts as an introduction to VUCA and complexity. It reviews ways to manage complexity, while providing examples for tools and approaches that can be applied. The main focus of Section 2 is on leadership, strategy and planning. The chapters in this section create new approaches to handle VUCA environments pertaining to these areas including using the Tetralemma logics, tools from systemic structural constellation (SySt) approach of psychotherapy and organizational development, to provide new ideas for the management of large strategic programs in organizations. Section 3 considers how marketing and sales are affected by VUCA, from social media’s influence to customer value management. Operations and cost management are highlighted in Section 4. This section covers VUCA challenges within global supply chains and decision-oriented controlling. In Section 5 organizational structure and process management are showcased, while Section 6 is dedicated to addressing the effects of VUCA in IT, technology and data management. The VUCA forces present businesses with the need to move from linear modes of thought to problem solving with synthetic and simultaneous thinking. This book should help to provide some starting points and ideas to deal with the next era. It should not be understood as the end of the road, but as the beginning of a journey exploring and developing new concepts for a new way of management.
Download or read book The Agility Advantage written by Amanda Setili and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to win market leadership in a fast-changing world In the past, companies could pick a strategy and stick with it, maintaining a competitive edge for years. But today, companies surge ahead, fall behind, or even disappear in mere months. If you and your company are going to thrive for the long run, you need to continuously evolve, change, and stay a step ahead of your competition. The ability to see and capitalize on new opportunities is the cornerstone of agility. Successful technology-based firms like Google, Tesla, and Amazon have all mastered agility within their core business practices, but companies in any sector can—and must—learn to spot new opportunities and make the right choices about what to invest in, what to change, and what to abandon. The Agility Advantage first shows how to identify those aspects of your business where agility is most crucial—where the business environment is changing fast—and which elements have the greatest impact on the customer’s decision to buy. Amanda Setili then shows how to master the three components of agility: Market agility: Gain ideas from your most demanding and forward-thinking customers and from outside your industry. Engage, observe, and mix with customers to identify the opportunities created by their changing demands. Decision agility: Anticipate the changes that may affect you and turn even troubling trends into opportunities. Design your strategy to maximize learning and to manage risk. Generate diverse alternatives and make fast, fact-based decisions about which to pursue. Execution agility: Build new capabilities, shed what doesn’t fit, and take the first steps in a new direction. Experiment, then reinforce and build on what works. Enlist and inspire your organization around a compelling purpose and grant employees the autonomy and resources to continuously adapt and adjust course. The future will present more opportunities but narrower windows to capture them. With a wealth of valuable information and practical strategies, The Agility Advantage is essential reading to help any organization adapt and thrive—both today and tomorrow.
Download or read book VUCA Masters Practitioner s Guide written by Nicholas F. Horney Ph. D. and published by BAI Press. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VUCA Masters - Practitioner's Guide comes in a 2-part set that includes the book and a practitioner's guide for implementing the processes, resources, and insights provided in the book. You will appreciate the metaphor of Leadership Agility Fitness since it aligns with the annual health check-up that most of us experience as we identify gaps in our physical fitness and associated plans to enhance our physical fitness. The same is true for our Leadership Agility Fitness and the need to regularly receive our "check-up" through a research-based Leadership Agility assessment with a resulting Leadership Agility development plan focused on improving our Leadership Agility fitness scores.VUCA Master Profiles -- Examples of individuals profiled in the book as VUCA Masters include some in the past (Martin Luther King, Jr., Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, and others). In addition, current VUCA Masters profiled include (Matt Stevens - former Commodore with US Navy SEALs, Dr. Koshi Sidney Makai - Psychologist, Bill Gates, Lori Willis - Artist, and Hereditary Cancer survivor, and others). You will find that these VUCA Masters illustrate how we can demonstrate leadership agility in personal life as well as in business.You will find VUCA Masters to be an essential resource for the work you do to develop leaders with an agility mindset and associated leadership agility behavior. Leaders at all levels, Chief Learning Officers, Agile Coaches, Executive Coaches, and learning & development professionals will benefit from the VUCA Masters's set.
Download or read book VUCA Masters written by Nicholas F. Horney Ph. D. and published by BAI Press. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VUCA Masters comes in a 2-part set that includes the book and a practitioner's guide for implementing the processes, resources, and insights provided in the book. You will appreciate the metaphor of Leadership Agility Fitness since it aligns with the annual health check-up that most of us experience as we identify gaps in our physical fitness and associated plans to enhance our physical fitness. The same is true for our Leadership Agility Fitness and the need to regularly receive our "check-up" through a research-based Leadership Agility assessment with a resulting Leadership Agility development plan focused on improving our Leadership Agility fitness scores.VUCA Master Profiles -- Examples of individuals profiled in the book as VUCA Masters include some in the past (Martin Luther King, Jr., Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, and others). In addition, current VUCA Masters profiled include (Matt Stevens - former Commodore with US Navy SEALs, Dr. Koshi Sidney Makai - Psychologist, Bill Gates, Lori Willis - Artist, and Hereditary Cancer survivor, and others). You will find that these VUCA Masters illustrate how we can demonstrate leadership agility in personal life as well as in business.You will find VUCA Masters to be an essential resource for the work you do to develop leaders with an agility mindset and associated leadership agility behavior. Leaders at all levels, Chief Learning Officers, Agile Coaches, Executive Coaches, and learning & development professionals will benefit from the VUCA Masters's set.
Download or read book Agility Shift written by Pamela Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As contrary as it sounds, "planning" -- as we traditionally understand the term--can be the worst thing a company can do. Consider that volatile weather events disrupt trusted supply chains, markets, and promised delivery schedules. Ever-shifting geo-political tensions, as well as internal political upheaval within U.S. and global governments, derail long-planned new ventures. Technology failures block opportunities. Competitors suddenly change their product or release date; your team cannot meet the pace of innovations in your market niche, leaving you sidelined. There are myriad ways in the current business environment for a company's well-considered business plans to go awry. Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mindset and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control at the very foundation of most management training and business practice. Despite most leaders' approaches, "Agility is not simply accelerated planning." Unlike many agility books on the market, The Agility Shift provides specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization to put into practice immediately to improve agility and achieve results.
Download or read book Leading in a VUCA World written by Jacobus (Kobus) Kok and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book brings together works by specialists from different disciplines and continents to reflect on the nexus between leadership, spirituality and discernment, particularly with regard to a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). The book spells out, first of all, what our VUCA world entails, and how it affects businesses, organizations, and societies as a whole. Secondly, the book develops new perspectives on the processes of leadership, spirituality, and discernment, particularly in this VUCA context. These perspectives are interdisciplinary in nature, and are informed by e.g. management studies, leadership theory, philosophy, and theology.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning written by Elçi, Alev and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faculty development is currently practiced in a variety of approaches by individuals, committees, and centers of excellence. More research is needed to draw better benefit from these approaches in the impending digital world by taking advantage of digitally enabled teaching and learning. The Handbook of Research on Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning offers holistic and multidisciplinary approaches to enhancing faculty effectiveness in teaching, boosting motivation, extending knowledge, expanding teaching behaviors, and disseminating skills in digital higher education settings. Featuring a broad range of topics such as faculty learning communities (FLCs), virtual learning environments, and professional development, this book is ideal for educators, educational technologists, curriculum developers, higher education staff, school administrators, principals, academicians, practitioners, and graduate students.
Download or read book Leaders Make the Future written by Bob Johansen and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in a time of accelerating disruptive change. In a VUCA world - one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity - traditional leadership skills won't be enough, noted futurist Bob Johansen argues. Drawing on the latest forecasts from the Institute for the Future - the first futures think tank ever to outlive its forecasts - this powerful book explores the external forces that are shaking the foundations of leadership and unveils ten critical new leadership skills. How adroit are you at dilemma flipping - turning problems that can't be solved into opportunities? Can you develop bio - empathy - the ability to learn from and apply the principles of nature in your leadership? Are you able to practice immersive learning - dive into very different - from - you physical and online worlds and learn from them? Johansen provides role models, tools, and advice to help you develop these and seven other future leadership skills. In addition, Johansen deals with two new forces that are shaping the future. The first is the ''digital natives'' - people fifteen years and younger who have grown up in a digital world. The second is cloud - based supercomputing, which will enable extraordinarily rich new forms of connection, collaboration, and commerce. In this thoroughly updated and expanded second edition, Johansen is joined by the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership. CCL's contributions help readers understand the new leadership skills by linking them to existing skills, and they provide analytics and exercises so readers can more fully develop these new skills.
Download or read book Leaders Make the Future written by Robert Johansen and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDWhat are the new leadership skills needed to succeed in the decade ahead? In this second edition Bob Johansen, bestselling author and longtime CEO of the Institute for the Future, teams with the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), not only describing and updating the 10 new essential leadership skills but also offering tools and techniques for developing and applying them.
Download or read book Vuca Tools for a Vuca World written by Ann Deaton and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentless change is a reality. VUCA, an acronym for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous, has created challenges for all of us. How do we rise to the challenge? VUCA Tools for a VUCA World off ers four powerful approaches--Values, Us, Curiosity, and Aspirations--that will empower leaders and followers alike. Th roughout this business fable, leaders access their values, strengthen their connections with others, lean into their curiosity, and realize their aspirations to be better. As the team members learn and relearn key teamwork skills, they grow their ability to communicate, coach, and hold one another accountable. Th eir goal, like the goal of leaders everywhere, is sustainable success. What will you do in the face of VUCA? VUCA Tools for a VUCA World off ers powerful possibilities and role models to ensure you aren't in it alone.
Download or read book Unlocking Agility written by Jorgen Hesselberg and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Guidance and Inspiration for Launching, Sustaining, or Improving Any Agile Enterprise Transformation Initiative As long-time competitive advantages disappear, astute executives and change agents know they must achieve true agile transformation. In Unlocking Agility, Jorgen Hesselberg reveals what works, what doesn’t, and how to overcome the daunting obstacles. Distilling 10+ years of experience leading agile transformation in the enterprise, Hesselberg guides you on jumpstarting change, sustaining momentum, and executing superbly on customer commitments as you move forward. He helps you identify appropriate roles for consultants, optimize organizational structures, set realistic expectations, and measure against them. He shares first-hand accounts from pioneering transformation leaders at firms including Intel, Nokia, Salesforce.com, Spotify, and many more. • Balance building the right thing, the right way, at the right speed • Design a holistic transformation strategy using five dimensions of agility: Technology, Organizational Design, People, Leadership, and Culture • Promote agile skills, knowledge, and abilities throughout your workforce • Incorporate powerful leadership models, including Level 5, Teal, and Beyond Budgeting • Leverage business agility metrics to affect norms and change organizational culture • Establish your Agile Working Group, the engine of agile transformation • Define operating models and strategic roadmaps for unlocking agility, and track your progress You already know agile transformation is essential. Now, discover how to customize your strategy, execute on it in your environment, and achieve it.
