CHAPTER 2

The Agile Manager’s Self-Assessment

Agility: Management Principles for A Volatile World offers the manager a self-assessment designed to increase self-awareness. As Gallup noted, “You cannot have a culture of agility until you equip your managers with the right development, clear expectations, ongoing coaching and accountability.”1 Since “self-awareness involves being clear on personal values, understanding strengths and weaknesses, and being cognizant of one’s impact on others,” frequent self-assessments play an important role for the agile manager.2 Elena Bothelho and Kim Powell published The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders and discussed how their research emphasized the role ...

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