The 6 enablers of business agility : how to thrive in an uncertain world /
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Oakland, CA :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Business Agility and the Organizational Operating System
- Why I Wrote This Book
- My Two Key Drivers
- How This Book Works
- ch. 1 Changing Business Climate
- Exploring and Exploiting: Two Key
- Organizational Activities
- Twentieth-Century Organization: Exploiting with Efficiency
- Rise of VUCA: The Game Has Changed
- Modern Organization: Exploring with Agility
- ch. 2 Introducing Business Agility
- Breaking Out of the Status Quo: Beyond Belief Perseverance
- Three Waves of Agility: From
- Software Engineers to the Boardroom
- Business Agility: Cautionary Tales from History
- No Sacred Cows: Disrupting Yourself
- ch. 3 6 Enablers of Business Agility
- Why Agility Initiatives Fail: A Narrow Focus
- Introducing the 6 Enablers of Business Agility: Taking a Holistic Approach
- Leadership and Management
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Structure
- People and Engagement
- Governance and Funding
- Ways of Working
- Putting It All Together
- ch. 4 Leadership and Management
- Birth of Management: The Emerging Imperative
- Early Management: Back to the Pioneers
- Reinventing Management: What Worked Before
- Twenty-First-Century Leadership: Some Emerging Approaches
- Agile Leadership: Three Key Mindset Shifts
- ch. 5 Organizational Culture
- Why Culture Matters: Lessons from a Failing Car Plant
- Modeling Culture: Making Tangible the Intangible
- Shifting Culture: Changing by Not Changing
- Moving beyond Words: Creating an Environment for Agility
- ch. 6 Organizational Structure
- Importance of Structure: Adopting Electricity
- Principle One: Customer-Centricity
- Principle Two: Small, Cross-Functional Teams
- Principle Three: The Network of Interconnected Teams
- Principle Four: Ambidextrous Organizations
- Importance of Structure: Fighting Terrorism in Iraq
- ch. 7 People and Engagement
- Case for Employee Engagement: Wake Up and Smell the Success
- Neuroscience of Knowledge Work: Priming the Brain for Thinking
- Managing for Engagement: From Compliance to Creativity
- Reinventing HR: A Twenty-First-Century Approach
- ch. 8 Governance and Funding
- Budgets, Projects, and Outputs: Building the House of Cards
- Customers, Value, and Outcomes: Taming Uncertainty
- Managing the Portfolio: The Right Tool at the Right Time
- Searching: Casting the Net Wide
- Developing: Bringing Ideas to Life
- ch. 9 Ways of Working
- Daily Team Practices: Patterns for Collaboration
- Kaizen: A Mindset of Continuous Improvement
- Measuring Performance: More Value with Less Work
- ch. 10 Leading the Change
- Why Most Change Fails: Avoiding the Pitfalls
- Seven Principles of Leading Change: Laying the Foundations
- Business Agility Canvas: Your Transformation on a Page
- Working with the Canvas: Change as the New Normal.