The Agile Leader's Scrapbook

Stretching your managerial logic 11
11 | Agility: the talk of the town
13 | Shaking the foundations
14 | Perfection kills creativity
15 | Trees graced with wings?
16 | The great irony: agility needs stability (and vice versa)
18 | Rooting and soaring: a great ‘living-apart-together’ relationship
20 | Get clear on where your organisation sits right now
26 | Four different mindsets: take the test!
30 | Mastering agility

Understanding agile organising 35
36 | Four key characteristics: get fascinated by fractals
39 | The organisational cancer of the past: positional organising
41 | Managers of links, not of things
45 | Integrated data systems: a necessity
46 | Useful slack: deliberate inefficiency pays off
49 | A waste of money?
49 | Go on a blind DATE: DAre to Trust and Empower
51 | Rehabilitating the ugly duckling

In need of a collaborative culture 59
59 | Meetings are like traffic jams
62 | Get rid of that old-fashioned meeting style
63 | The future is co-creation
64 | Developing a collaborative space

Skills clusters for soaring 73
74 | Decision-making principles for soaring
75 | Three critical skillsets
78 | How to? Cluster 1: Authentic connection
83 | How to? Cluster 2: Divergent thinking
89 | How to? Cluster 3: Constructively dealing with differences
91 | Bye-bye SMART, hello CONDOR

The art of failing wisely 97
99 | Instil a growth mindset
100 | Seven key characteristics of a growth mindset
106 | Building resilience: learning to cope with mistakes
110 | Be aware of your decision-making biases

Towards shared leadership 117
118 | Conquering our Stone Age mindset
120 | A leader should create space and opportunities for soaring
122 | Your choice: sharing leadership, or running with the power mongers?
123 | Implementing a shared leadership approach
126 | Co-create for real change
128 | Just remember

Talent on the move 133
133 | In need of a complete makeover
136 | Five tough questions to ask, five assumptions to let go of
143 | So, do we just ignore the human element?

From military parades to dancing the tango 149
150 | Don’t collapse under the weight of complexity: abandon the illusion that creating one big, uniform organisation will save costs
151 | Conquer the Olympian peak: create a space for rooting and soaring to coexist
152 | Don’t be dependent on power mongering while innovating: hire a sniper to get rid of your ‘murder’ boards
154 | Time to tango
158 | Notes and extra reading
165 | Quotes