Chapter 7
Leadership and cultural agility
Cultural agility is the ability to hold the paradox between stability and flexibility
Culture and leadership: two sides of a coin
In this chapter we explore different views of culture and describe the characteristics of an agile culture. We show leadership and culture as two sides of the same coin, then look at how leaders deal with their sense of cultural fit or ‘misfit’. We outline how ego, eco and intuitive intelligences are as much a part of culture as they are of leadership and how these intelligences can be used by leaders to either preserve or evolve culture, and more specifically to build ...
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