Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently

Part II

Transformational Leadership: Upgrading the Leader’s Operating System

Part I of this book describes an approach to Agile Transformations based on Integral thinking, while Part III articulates a meta-framework for a new organizational operating system for Agile Transformations. In between the two, Part II focuses on upgrading your existing leader’s operating system (LOS) to the level required to lead a transformation.

For at the center of real transformation is leadership. It is leadership at every level, at every turn—from the wake-up call, to the vision, to the strategy, to the implementation, learning, course-correcting, and sustaining; it is the opposite of delegation. Without leadership, the best we can hope for is a managed movement ...