The Agile Leader

  • 3 Courses | 1h 50m 57s
  • 16 Books | 47h 57m
  • 6 Audiobooks | 37h 52m 18s
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Learn how to meet leadership challenges with a focused and flexible mindset founded upon the principles of agility. Respond quickly with adaptive techniques and engage and empower others on their journey toward an agile mindset.

COURSES INCLUDED

Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
1 video | 4m available Badge
The Agile Leader
Even a small shift in direction can accelerate success. In this course, you will learn how to adopt a focused and flexible mindset; respond quickly with adaptive techniques; and empower others to reach the goal.
7 videos | 40m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Leadership Insights on Leading with Agility
The agile leader is adaptive, can sense and seize opportunities, and is constantly on the lookout for change. Discover how agility can make you, your team, and your organization more innovative, more responsive, and more successful.
21 videos | 1h 5m available Badge

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BOOKS INCLUDED

Book

MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Agile Is Not Enough
In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn that by addressing architectural rigidity, closing talent gaps, and adopting a product mindset, leaders can realize agile's power.
book Duration 7m book Authors By Steve Berez, Will Poindexter

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MIT Sloan Management Review on The Agile Leader: Perseverance and Flexibility
In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn best practices in agility routines and management processes; how leaders compensate for potentially career-limiting traits; why managing agility is so critical; and the ways that creativity can be woven into our work lives.
book Duration 49m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

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MIT Sloan Management Review on Agile Methodologies/Mindset
In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how quickly and effectively your business responds to change, if your company has the right management practices in place to ensure sustainable success, and more.
book Duration 54m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

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MIT Sloan Management Review on Agile Mindset & Culture
This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how organizations can remain agile and culturally sensitive, how can traditional companies break the mold and adopt more effective management practices from other sectors, and more.
book Duration 35m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

BOOK SUMMARY

The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations
The Agility Shift provides leaders at all levels in an organization with the mindset, strategy, and practical tools to make them agile. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 10m book Authors By Pamela Meyer

BOOK SUMMARY

Adaptive Capacity: How Organizations Can Thrive in a Changing World
Adaptive Capacity teaches you the theory behind adaptation as it applies to organizations and the people in them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 13m book Authors By Juan Carlos Eichholz

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Leading Agile Teams
Presenting a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset, this book will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create and sustain strong agile teams, and is written for the developers, project managers, product owners, and ScrumMasters, who do most of the legwork in getting agile up and running.
book Duration 4h 16m book Authors By Doug Rose

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The Agile Leader: A Playbook for Leaders
Using sports imagery in a modern fable, this inspirational and motivational book is full of insights and perspectives on conflicts, resistive culture and company politics that all leaders must know how to handle in order to be successful.
book Duration 1h 44m book Authors By Steve Gladis

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Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale
Instead of the traditional Agile and DevOps approaches that focus on improving the effectiveness of teams, this thorough book targets the coordination of work across teams in large organizations-an improvement that executives are uniquely positioned to make.
book Duration 1h 40m book Authors By Gary Gruver, Tommy Mouser

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Agile for Project Managers
Complete with a list of agile training providers, this book will help certified project managers make a smooth transition to agile project management and will provide newcomers with the basic knowledge needed to pass the PMI-ACP exam, the first time around.
book Duration 3h 9m book Authors By Denise Canty

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Integrating Agile Development in the Real World
IT professionals struggle with integrating agile practices and processes into traditional project environments. This text provides programmers and managers with specific ways to implement and use agile processes in everyday software development projects.
book Duration 7h 5m book Authors By Peter Schuh

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The Art of Agile Practice: A Composite Approach for Projects and Organizations
Transcending beyond Agile as a software development method to cover the gamut of methods in an organization, this practical resource presents a consistent, integrated, and strategic approach to achieving "Agility" in your business.
book Duration 10h 56m book Authors By Bhuvan Unhelkar

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Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite Creativity
Offering insights that are highlighted in 11 detailed case studies illustrating the world's best innovation practices at top companies, this authoritative guide combines the best of Agile with the world's leading methods of Innovation to present a crisp, articulate, and proven system for developing the breakthrough capabilities every organization must master to thrive today and tomorrow.
book Duration 5h 35m book Authors By Langdon Morris, Moses Ma, Po Chi Wu

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The Agile Organization: How to Build an Innovative, Sustainable and Resilient Business
Combining case studies, self-assessment tools, guidelines, and practical checklists with theory, this book focuses on how to build both agility and resilience at individual, team, and organizational levels, and puts the process of developing agile strategy, structures, and processes into the big picture context.
book Duration 6h 6m book Authors By Linda Holbeche

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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful!
Recently named as one of the world's five most-respected executive coaches by Forbes, Marshall Goldsmith shares his expertise and one-on-one coaching practices to help you overcome your unconscious annoying habits, and lead you to success.
book Duration 4h 29m book Authors By Mark Reiter, Marshall Goldsmith

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on What Employees Want Most in Uncertain Times
When threats loom, managers must go beyond the tried-and-true techniques for supporting employees to address divergent concerns and build trust.
book Duration 9m book Authors By Jessica B.B. Diaz, Kristine W. Powers
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

Audiobook

The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations
This audio edition 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.
audiobook Duration 6h 1m 15s audiobook Authors By Pamela Meyer

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Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
This audio edition provides a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption.
audiobook Duration 4h 36m 50s audiobook Authors By John P. Kotter

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Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations
This audio edition will show you how to position your company to succeed in world of change.
audiobook Duration 7h 26m 10s audiobook Authors By Michael J. Arena

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Humanity Works: Merging Technologies and People for the Workforce of the Future
This audio edition will equip you for staying innovative and successful in the wake of major workplace disruption.
audiobook Duration 7h 55m 44s audiobook Authors By Alexandra Levit

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Leading Continuous Change: Navigating Churn in the Real World
This audio edition presents a four-part model and four mindsets that allow leaders to deal with multiple changes simultaneously without drowning in the churn.
audiobook Duration 5h 47m 54s audiobook Authors By Bill Pasmore

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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
This audio edition shares Marshall Goldsmith's expertise and one-on-one coaching practices to help you overcome your unconscious annoying habits, and lead you to success. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 6h 4m 25s audiobook Authors By Mark Reiter, Marshall Goldsmith
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Leading Yourself
Landing that management role is quite an accomplishment and you should be proud of yourself. But it's just the beginning your leadership journey. Successfully maintaining and growing a leadership career means developing yourself as well as your team. It's a career-long path of learning and self-discovery. In this Leading Yourself Unit benchmark, you'll be able to assess your current learning and growth mindset, and get a glimpse of areas in which you can develop further self-awareness and self-improvement. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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