Download or read book The Agile Leadership Checkbook written by Jeff Dalton and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agile Leadership Checkbook is a lean self-assessment resource for agile leaders who need to build an enterprise's agile capability. Based on the author's Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)�, the Agile Leadership Checkbook introduces you to a new level of insight and control over six Performance Circles that are key to establishing and scaling agility.The Agile Leadership Checkbook includes a set of checklists for Agile Leaders to self-evaluate their performance, as well as information about the Agile Performance Holarchy and how to participate in developing the next generation of Agile leaders.

Download or read book Agile Leadership Toolkit written by Peter Koning and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, Proven Tools for Leading and Empowering High-Performing Agile Teams A leader is like a farmer, who doesn’t grow crops by pulling them but instead creates the perfect environment for the crops to grow and thrive. If you lead in organizations that have adopted agile methods, you know it’s crucial to create the right environment for your agile teams. Traditional tools such as Gantt charts, detailed plans, and internal KPIs aren’t adequate for complex and fast-changing markets, but merely trusting employees and teams to self-manage is insufficient as well. In Agile Leadership Toolkit, longtime agile leader Peter Koning provides a practical and invaluable steering wheel for agile leaders and their teams. Drawing on his extensive experience helping leaders drive more value from agile, Koning offers a comprehensive toolkit for continuously improving your environment, including structures, metrics, meeting techniques, and governance for creating thriving teams that build disruptive products and services. Koning thoughtfully explains how to lead agile teams at large scale and how team members fit into both the team and the wider organization. Architect environments that help teams learn, grow, and flourish for the long term Get timely feedback everyone can use to improve Co-create goals focused on the customer, not the internal organization Help teams brainstorm and visualize the value of their work to the customer Facilitate team ownership and accelerate team learning Support culture change, and design healthier team habits Make bigger changes faster This actionable guide is for leaders at all levels—whether you’re supervising your first agile team, responsible for multiple teams, or lead the entire company. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Download or read book The Professional Agile Leader written by Ron Eringa and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hone Your Agile Leadership Skills to Help Your Organization Transform and Thrive To leverage the immense opportunities associated with accelerating change, organizations need teams capable of trying new ideas quickly, learning from their experiences, and adapting based on that learning. Helping these teams to grow and thrive requires agile leaders who support, inspire, and encourage, and who can leave behind the management skills of directing, monitoring, and rewarding or punishing. The Professional Agile Leader is a realistic, practical guide, written by experienced agile leaders who share their collective experiences in helping agile leaders to grow responsive and adaptive teams. They structure powerful lessons around a case study based on decades of experience helping agile leaders achieve and sustain agile transformation. Best of all, they never settle for high-level hand-waving--they show you how it's really done. Reignite once-successful organizations that have lost their way Form cross-functional teams and empower them with purpose Learn to let go, as your teams start taking more responsibility Overcome forces that want to reel you back into the "old rules" Realign the whole organization, since agile and traditional models can't coexist forever Achieve the most challenging goal of all: changing culture Great agile leaders aren't born that way--they're regular people who care deeply about helping others achieve shared goals and have discovered a better way to lead. Whatever your role in the organization, this guide will help you master those skills and mindsets a whole lot faster. "Drawing on vast experience, Ron, Kurt, and Laurens tease out practical tips and patterns for good leadership [and show] how a leader can help shape the environment for agile teams to succeed. . . . The narrative style of the book makes it easy to read, and I am sure there will be many times that you see yourself in it." --From the Foreword by Dave West, CEO and Product Owner, Scrum.org Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Download or read book The Agile Leader written by Zuzana Sochova and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash Your Agile Leadership Potential and Guide Your Entire Organization Toward Agility In this complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable world, radically agile organizations thrive when they combine strong local autonomy with deeply shared goals. Leadership is a key factor--individuals who welcome complexity and know how to leverage influence, culture, and organizational design to align widely distributed teams are integral to success. Renowned agile coach Zuzana Sochová presents the skills and techniques you need to become that needed agile leader. Sochová provides inspirational examples drawing on her experience working with leaders in organizations of all sizes, in multiple industries, worldwide. Through practical exercises and assessments, you learn how to unleash your potential, become a better catalyst and community builder, sensibly apply transparency, improve functions from HR to finance, and guide entire organizations toward greater agility. Build a powerful shared vision and change organizations and cultures to achieve it Explore types and models of agile leadership and choose styles that leverage your strengths Practice the competencies and high-level cognitive “meta-skills” of agile leadership Understand and promote agility at the executive and board levels Master practical techniques such as large group facilitation, system coaching, trust building, and team formation Lead in a world of soaring volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity The Agile Leader is for managers, directors, executives, and entrepreneurs--anyone, regardless of position, who is ready to take ownership, challenge the status quo, and become a true agile leader. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Download or read book Strategic Doing written by Edward Morrison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten skills for agile leadership Complex challenges are all around us—they impact our companies, our communities, and our planet. This complexity and the emergence of networks is changing the practice of strategic management. Today’s leaders need to understand how to design and guide complex collaborations to accelerate innovation and change—collaborations that cross boundaries both inside and outside organizations. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You’ll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won’t find anywhere else. • Unleash the power of true collaboration • Learn and master the 10 skills of agile leadership • Apply individual skills to targeted situations • Introduces a new discipline of leadership strategy Filled with compelling case studies, Strategic Doing outlines a new discipline of leadership strategy specifically designed for open, loosely-connected networks.

Download or read book Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times written by Sharon Olivier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking and engaging book is for you, whatever your seniority, in the private or public sector – if you are curious about the role and purpose of leadership in a turbulent world. It will help you become a more agile leader through understanding and integrating your ego, eco and intuitive intelligence. You will gain a deeper understanding of your unique leadership blend through a short diagnostic inventory, bringing insight about your strengths and what may be tripping you up. The book offers tips, ideas and practical suggestions on how to develop your ability to use the three intelligences in order to expand your leadership repertoire. It will help you enable the teams you lead to be more flexible, responsive and autonomous. The authors have drawn on their vast experience from the boardroom to the shop floor, the classroom and research around the world, to write an easy-to-digest yet ground-breaking book that deals with the root causes of today’s twenty-first-century leadership challenges. Its contents are straightforward and widely applicable.

Download or read book Agile Leadership in Practice written by Dominik Maximini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the agile transformation journey of a consulting organization. It consists of nine main chapters, each focusing on specific aspects of transformation. These include establishing value in business, holistic recruitment and retention, innovating performance appraisals, rethinking organizational structure, redesigning leadership roles, streamlining measurement and reward systems, and improving career paths. Some specific processes, such as corporate decision making, SMILE (budget for business improvement at employee discretion), project selection, holiday leave, and career coaching are also described. All of the transformations described build up on Management 3.0, a collection of management principles and practices that fit perfectly in an agile world. The book is of practical relevance for managers and agile coaches who want to learn how to approach agile transformation.

Download or read book Leadership Agility written by William B. Joiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility. Significantly, only 10% have mastered the level of agility needed for consistent effectiveness in our turbulent era of global competition. Written in an engaging, down-to-earth style, this book not only provides a map that guides readers in identifying their current level of agility. It also provides practical advice and concrete examples that show managers and leadership development professionals how they can bring greater agility to the initiatives they take every day.

Download or read book The Rise of the Agile Leader written by Chuck Mollor and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world rapidly changes, so are consumers' needs and expectations, the global marketplace, and the necessity for organizations to evolve equally fast. Many companies are attempting agile transformation, but without a shift in traditional leadership mindsets, abilities, and development, they will not succeed. To navigate change and achieve success, you need to become an Agile Leader(TM). Today's leaders need to be agile in order to develop and drive agile teams, organizations, culture, and results. Author Chuck Mollor, an experienced executive coach and former CEO, shares his story of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-development, while demonstrating a new leadership paradigm, a roadmap of what makes a great leader, and what organizations must do to develop great leaders. Discover a new approach in what it means to lead in today's environment. Learn the key traits of great leaders and how to inspire your team to break through, achieve, and build high performing teams and organizations. Gain the self-awareness, knowledge, skills and behaviors to realize what is holding you back and how to manage your own triggers so you can reach the next level. Are you ready to make the shift? What Leaders Are Saying "This is not your typical theory-based leadership book. Chuck Mollor artfully couples his framework with specific tactics, and provides a blueprint for what organizations need to do to develop their current and future leaders.... Mollor's decades of experience add a tried and true human element to the subject matter, making this an entertaining and highly valuable read." Peter P. Dhillon Chairman of the Board, Ocean Spray Cranberries "Chuck Mollor cuts to the heart of key pitfalls and opportunities in leadership today. Reading The Rise of the Agile Leader is like having your own executive coach in the room...." Deniz Razon Chief Commercial Officer, Servier Pharmaceuticals "Now more than ever, leaders must be agile - able to respond to ever changing market conditions and employee needs and expectations. The Rise of the Agile Leader is a practical handbook to help you improve your leadership skills and effectiveness.... Chuck Mollor gives a roadmap to true talent optimization." Kirk Arnold Executive in Residence, General Catalyst. Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management "Chuck Mollor's agile leadership framework perfectly captures what all leaders and managers should aspire to be. Best of all, this book spells out exactly how to develop those critical leadership skills, no matter where you are in your career. In my experience leading HR in several industries and companies, a resource like this is invaluable to leadership development." Erin McSweeney EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer, Optum

Download or read book Becoming an agile leader written by Victoria V. Swisher and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Agile Leader written by Simon Hayward and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Nine of Mine written by Bjarne Steen Jensen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nine of Mine, Bjarne Steen Jensen shares a number of the models that have brought him value and utility in his work as an executive in companies such as Gillette, Colgate, Carlsberg and Unilever. Nine of Mine gives the students, managers and employees insight into how a managing director perceives a company's business overall, and how it is broken down. There are nine models, which all appear simple and practical, spiced up with the author's own experience and supported by examples from business. In addition, the models are tested one by one, using fictitious examples.

Download or read book An Agile Life Project Management written by VISHAL K. WADHWANI and published by VISHAL K. WADHWANI. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS EBOOK PLANTS ONE TREE An Agile Life Project Management: Crucial Agile Leadership Methodologies to Manage Projects, Achieve Goals, & Guarantee ROI Create the Perfect Environment for ALL Your Teams to Thrive, Achieve Results, & Drive ROI Through the Roof with this Agile Project Management Guide! Are you looking for proven, sustainable, and easy-to-follow leadership tools that cultivate the perfect agile environment for independent, high-performing teams to thrive? You came to the right place! In today’s fast-paced environment, traditional tools have proven to be inadequate when trying to catch up to complex, fast-changing markets. Similarly, merely leaving individual teams to their own devices presents multiple downsides. The perfect middle ground can be found with the help of proven Agile Project Management methodologies. Using these practices provides any modern organization a chance to facilitate team ownership and accelerate team learning, create ideal environments that help teams learn, grow, and thrive for the long term, make bigger changes faster, get timely feedback everyone can use to improve, and more! So, how do you cultivate an agile environment for your teams? SIMPLE — add “Agile Project Management” by Vishal K. Wadhwani to your toolkit! This guide seeks to teach you all the crucial agile leadership methodologies that help manage procrastination, achieve collective goals, and guarantee Return of Investment in no time! With the help of this game-changing book, you and your team will: Create permanent positive change in small sustainable doses, versus huge disruptive deviations that do more harm than good Learn all the field-tested tips to maximize daily meetings and ensure that every team member efficiently performs tasks and reaches goals Maximize on the benefits of servant leadership in terms of boosting performance, creating value, and achieving great results And so much more! Agile methodologies, when done right, have provided organizations with a realistic but aggressive project management framework that allowed them to increase each team member’s performance and drive Return of Investment through the roof! Make the move to put your organization on the map NOW! Scroll up, Click on “Buy Now with 1-Click”, and Boost Your Team’s Efficiency & Performance Today!

Download or read book Evolvagility written by Michael Hamman and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations around the globe are struggling to adapt to an increasingly complex and turbulent social, economic, technological, and business environment-whether they be banks, product development companies, or city councils. Many are responding by embracing agility as a way of working-some with a primary orientation around operational agility (Agile software development methods such as Scrum and SAFe), others focusing on customer development agility (e.g., Lean Startup), while others are embracing a broader business agility. In almost all of these cases, the prevailing notion of agility is concerned primarily with processes and practices, with systems and structures-a form of outer agility. But, as seasoned agilists (of whatever stripe) are finding, the biggest challenges with agility revolve not so much around its outer aspects-its processes, practices, deliverables, and business outcomes-but around the sensemaking, communication, and relationship intelligence of an organization's people-its inner aspects. This is where we find the characteristically human problems of resistance, conflict, communication breakdowns, broken promises, people going through the motions with little passion or conviction, deteriorating product quality, managers micro-managing-the world, that is, of mindset and culture-the world of inner agility.Many organizational leaders and managers take an objectivist approach to the growing of inner agility, treating mindset and culture as reified goals to be attained, rather than as holistic qualities to be cultivated. Mindset and culture are viewed as behavioral attributes which exist somewhere out there: In those people out there; in those behaviors out there; in those habits and beliefs out there. From such an objectivist perspective, the tendency is to think about and treat mindset and culture from the outside in-as those aspects of organizational reality which we can somehow fix or change from the outside; whether through inculcation, motivational inducement, reasoned argument, or training and mentoring.Evolvagility takes an alternative perspective-one in which we view mindset and culture not from the outside in, but from the inside out. From this perspective, we are interested in the inner capabilities which determine how people think; how they make sense of complex situations around them; the (often unexamined) beliefs and values they hold, both individually and collectively; people's ability (or inability) to hold perspectives that are different from their own; their ability (or lack thereof) to relate with others in ways that leave those others empowered and enabled. But, even more than this, we want to know how we might help ourselves and others grow those capabilities. Again, not from the outside in-the world of processes and structures or even behaviors; but rather from the inside out-from the world of sensemaking and consciousness, and from there out into the world of relationships and, beyond that, out into the world of organizational environments. Evolvagility synthesizes a human technology from a variety of fields that include adult developmental psychology, relationship systems, executive coaching, and organization development. In this synthesis, it leads us toward a deeper understanding of the very anatomy of human sensemaking, and how it impacts people's capacity for effective and creative action. And, perhaps more importantly, it provides a practical methodology with which we might increase the capacity of that inner sensemaking in order to help ourselves, and others, make sense of the complexity and ambiguity of the situations we increasingly find ourselves in as players in 21st Century organizational life.

Download or read book Great Big Agile written by Jeff Dalton and published by Apress. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Agile leaders need an empirical, "high-trust" model that provides guidance for scaling and sustaining agility and capability throughout a modern technology organization. This book presents the Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)—a "how-ability" model that provides agile leaders and teams with an operating system to build, evaluate, and sustain great agile habits and behaviors. The APH is an organizational operating system based on a set of interdependent, self-organizing circles, or holons, that reflect the empirical, object-oriented nature of agility. As more companies seek the benefits of Agile within and beyond IT, agile leaders need to build and sustain capability while scaling agility—no easy task—and they need to succeed without introducing unnecessary process and overhead. The APH is drawn from lessons learned while observing and assessing hundreds of agile companies and teams. It is not a process or a hierarchy, but a holarchy, a series of performance circles with embedded and interdependent holons that reflect the behaviors of high-performing agile organizations. Great Big Agile provides implementation guidance in the areas of leadership, values, teaming, visioning, governing, building, supporting, and engaging within an all-agile organization. What You’ll Learn Model the behaviors of a high-performance agile organizationBenefit from lessons learned by other organizations that have succeeded with Big AgileAssess your level of agility with the Agile Performance Holarchy Apply the APH model to your business Understand the APH performance circles, holons, objectives, and actions Obtain certification for your company, organization, or agency Who This Book Is For Professionals leading, or seeking to lead, an agile organization who wish to use an innovative model to raise their organization's agile performance from one level to the next, all the way to mastery

Download or read book Agile Leadership written by Alex Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you new to leadership but have a history of working with Agile methodology? Are you working with a new team and want to apply agile leadership? Do the younger generations you work with have a different perception of agile methodology? Are you tired of reading the same agile leadership tips time and again? This book was written to break the mold and pull together great leadership practices with Agile methodology principles. It will provide you with a better understanding of how to approach key leadership challenges such as communication and how to motivate your team. In this book, you will: Learn how to accurately assess your current leadership abilities. Understand the need for constant reflection on your professional approach. Identify your role as a leader within an Agile team. Discover how to bring teams back to the core of Agile principles. Figure out how to let go of modified Agile tools. Understand how to evaluate when tools aren't serving your team. Learn what mentoring means within an Agile career path. Tips on how to start working as a mentor. Determine if you should implement coaching within your team. Explore self-mastery to represent your team. And so much more! Don't rely on those around you to build your leadership skills. Get started now by assessing your Agile leadership abilities and figure out how to improve yourself and empower your team. This book provides a number of actionable tips that you can easily implement within your day-to-day work habits. What are you waiting for? Download your copy of this book right now to start on your path to Agile Leadership!

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