By William B. Joiner, Stephen A. Josephs
Management Agility is the grasp competency wanted for sustained luck in today’s advanced, fast moving enterprise setting. Richly illustrated with tales in response to unique examine and many years of labor with consumers, this groundbreaking ebook identifies 5 degrees that leaders go through in constructing their agility. considerably, merely 10% have mastered the extent of agility wanted for constant effectiveness in our turbulent period of worldwide pageant. Written in an enticing, down-to-earth type, this ebook not just presents a map that courses readers in opting for their present point of agility. It additionally offers sensible suggestion and urban examples that express managers and management improvement execs how they could convey higher agility to the projects they take on a daily basis.
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ED1: THE EXPERT you: Well, Ed, you’ve been at it for seven months. How’s it going? ed1: You know that expression, when you’re up to your butt in alligators, it’s hard to remember you’re there to drain the swamp? c02 8/30/06 16 3:18 PM Page 16 LEADERSHIP AGILITY place is full of alligators. It’s a tough job, but it’s the kind of pressure I thrive on—having to use my industry know-how to fix a business. I’m a quick study, and I like solving problems. Wind me up and I drill down, figure out the problems, and come up with the right solutions.
Also, I told my VP of Finance to start getting me the monthly numbers on time. I gave him a new way to format the data to make it easier for me to analyze our costs. you: What’s it been like working with your executive team? ed1: I get more real work done with my directs when I meet with them one-on-one. Getting everybody together on a regular schedule, whether we need to or not, just isn’t productive. Don’t get me wrong. If we need a group meeting, I call one, but I use those meetings mainly to keep everybody informed about my latest thinking and review progress.
As we do so, we also describe the pair of inner capacities that underlie each competency. Toward the end of the chapter, we present another version of the Compass that displays all eight capacities. 1. The Leadership Agility Compass. 4 As with all four competencies, context-setting agility evolves through five levels. Your level of agility in carrying out these tasks depends on how fully you’ve developed two capacities: situational awareness and sense of purpose. When you’re taking a leadership initiative, your situational awareness refers to the quality of your attention to the larger context that surrounds it.