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Book Description

Unleash Your Agile Leadership Potential and Guide Your Entire Organization Toward Agility

In todays complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable world, radically agile organizations thrive when they combine strong local autonomy with deeply shared goals. Leadership is a key factorindividuals 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 ochová presents the skills and techniques you need to become that needed agile leader. ochovás inspirational examples draw 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 entrepreneursanyone, regardless of position, whos ready to take ownership, challenge the status quo, and become a true agile leader.

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Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Forewords
    1. By Johanna Rothman
    2. By Evan Leybourn
  4. Preface
    1. Who Should Read This Book
    2. How to Read This Book
  5. About the Author
  6. Contents at a Glance
  7. I: Agile Leader—Unleash Your Leadership Potential
    1. 1. How It All Started
      1. The Need for Change
    2. 2. Leadership Is a State of Mind
      1. What Is Agile?
    3. 3. Organizational Evolution
      1. Organization 1.0: Traditional
      2. Organization 2.0: Knowledge
      3. Organization 3.0: Agile
      4. Reflect on Your Organization
    4. 4. The Agile Leader
      1. The Servant Leader
      2. The Leader-Leader
      3. The Leadership Agility: From Expert to Catalyst
    5. 5. The Agile Leadership Model
      1. Get Awareness
      2. Embrace It
    6. 6. Competencies
      1. Vision and Purpose
      2. Three Levels of Reality
      3. High Dream and Low Dream
      4. Bringing Down the Vision
      5. Motivation
      6. Engagement
      7. Super-chickens
      8. Feedback
      9. Giving Feedback
      10. Learn from Feedback
      11. Decision
      12. Sociocracy
      13. Power and Control Cycles
      14. Collaboration
      15. Facilitation
      16. Four-Player Model
      17. Coaching
      18. Change
      19. The Change Dynamic
      20. Force Fields
      21. Competencies Self-Evaluation
    7. 7. Meta-skills
      1. The Me Domain
      2. The We Domain
      3. The World Domain
    8. 8. Building an Agile Organization
      1. Inside Out
      2. Evolutionary Purpose
      3. Emergent Leadership
      4. Culture
      5. “We” Culture
      6. Competing Values
      7. Network Structure
      8. Smart versus Healthy
      9. Reinventing Organizations
  8. II: The Different Parts of an Agile Organization
    1. 9. Business Agility
      1. Agile at the Executive Level
      2. The CEO in an Agile Organization
      3. Agile Board of Directors
    2. 10. Agile HR and Finance
      1. Agile HR
      2. Agile Finance
    3. 11. Tools and Practices
      1. System Coaching and Facilitation
      2. Open Space
      3. World Café
      4. Systems Thinking
      5. Radical Transparency
      6. Experiment, Inspect, and Adapt
      7. Be Inclusive
      8. Have Courage
      9. Growing Trust
      10. Teamwork
      11. Building Communities
    4. 12. Summary
      1. Organizational Perspective
      2. Agile Leader Perspective
      3. What’s Next
  9. Bibliography
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