The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations

  • 6h 1m 15s
  • Pamela Meyer
  • Gildan Media
  • 2015

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 geopolitical tensions as well as internal political upheaval within US and global governments derail long-planned new ventures. Technology failures block opportunities. Competitors suddenly change their products or release dates; 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 mind-set 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.

In this Audiobook

  • Chapter 1: The Agility Shift: What and Why
  • Chapter 2: Weaving the Relational Web for Agility
  • Chapter 3: Discovering the Five Dynamics of the Agility Shift
  • Chapter 4: Becoming an Agile Leader: Empowering Everyone to Be Agile
  • Chapter 5: Building the Agile Team
  • Chapter 6: Co-Creating the Agile Organization
  • Chapter 7: Maximizing Agility Within the Ecosystem
  • Chapter 8: Shifting to Agile Learning and Development
  • Chapter 9: Recruiting, Reinforcing, Recognizing, and Retaining Your Agile Talent