Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization

While organizations need to be agile for ongoing success, becoming and remaining agile, nimble, and flexible is difficult, and requires the involvement and alignment of systems, processes, and people. At the epicenter of never-ending push to maintain agility is the senior leadership team. This team...

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Other Authors: Zaccaro, Stephen J. (Editor), Hiller, Nathan J. (Editor), Klimoski, Richard J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Summary:While organizations need to be agile for ongoing success, becoming and remaining agile, nimble, and flexible is difficult, and requires the involvement and alignment of systems, processes, and people. At the epicenter of never-ending push to maintain agility is the senior leadership team. This team is the focus on this book. In this chapter, we describe the purposes for the book, including our intent to build some bridges across different but related scholarly communities around organizational agility. We summarize definitions of agility and present a model that links several key elements and processes that contribution to agile performance. We conclude with a brief summary of each chapter in this volume.
ISBN:9780429353161
9780367373337
9780367373344
Access:Open Access