Connected Leadership

Chapter 9

Creating an agile organisation

Making their organisations ‘agile’ has become one of the top priorities for today’s leaders. But there is a big gap between the desire and the implementation, since it demands a delicate balance between embedding the sort of organisational flexibility that is nimble and responsive to customers and competitors, while at the same time holding true to a clear purpose and direction.

This chapter discusses how you can begin to deal with modern turbulence by:

• innovating by unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit in your colleagues
• developing a learning organisation
• becoming an adaptive leader
• prioritising ruthlessly.

Dealing with turbulence

Today’s C-suite leaders are well aware that agility is critical to deal ...