Former Member 8 Years Ago Hi Sarah, Great post. I am convinced that agile is the way forward. We're moving from the industrial-era where work is complicated & predictable to post-industrial where technology is accelerating change and the challenges are becoming less predictable. I'm sure you've probably encountered it before, but the Responsive Org movement really embraces all of the concepts that you're talking about. Well worth a look if you have not. http://www.responsive.org/manifesto 1 Reply as... Cancel
Former Member 8 Years Ago - Edited Sarah – thanks for your useful insight to leadership and agile – your quote: “What they found was that as people progress up the ladder, they need to become increasingly comfortable with uncertainty and change.” I wonder how much the ‘learning agility’ framework gives thought to emerging leaders who are true digital natives? Korn Ferry will be keen to promote solutions for measuring to these dimensions – but digital natives will think less of hierarchies, and more about people having equally valid opinions with wider collaboration and sharing - how will these dimensions be shaped by more instinctive collaboration, sharing of information across silos and other organisations in partnership? In the next 10-years more than three-quarters of the workforce will be digitally native – people inculcated to different ways of being ‘agile’ with people and change, while accustomed to faster decisions and results. Do we need to review the development areas to consider the impact of ‘digital natives’, or the need for existing leaders who are not, to at least become ‘digitally wise'? 1 Reply as... Cancel Sarah Jennings Former Member 8 Years Ago - Edited I completely agree. We'll soon have those digital natives becoming leaders (if we haven't already!) In my last blog, I referred to a 2013 Cass Business school study where senior executives were asked what skills the leaders of tomorrow would need and, not unsurprisingly, they were closely aligned with being more collaborative and open to ideas so somewhat similar to the agile approach. It will be interesting to see whether digital natives naturally adopt this style of leadership. https://khub.net/web/sarah.jennings/blog/-/blogs/from-augustus-to-baby-boomers-how-leadership-is-adapting 0 Reply as... Cancel
Sarah Jennings Former Member 8 Years Ago - Edited I completely agree. We'll soon have those digital natives becoming leaders (if we haven't already!) In my last blog, I referred to a 2013 Cass Business school study where senior executives were asked what skills the leaders of tomorrow would need and, not unsurprisingly, they were closely aligned with being more collaborative and open to ideas so somewhat similar to the agile approach. It will be interesting to see whether digital natives naturally adopt this style of leadership. https://khub.net/web/sarah.jennings/blog/-/blogs/from-augustus-to-baby-boomers-how-leadership-is-adapting 0 Reply as... Cancel
Sarah Jennings 8 Years Ago Thanks Neil. I'm always looking for new perspectives so I'll check out Responsive Org. 1 Reply as... Cancel
Robb Sands 6 Years Ago Hi Sarah, Though this post has been a wee while back, it still is very relevant today. I think there's merit in checking out the agilebusiness.org site, and this post in particular: https://www.agilebusiness.org/resources/downloads/cultural-and-leadership-the-nine-principles-of-agile-leadership Although primarily focusing on devops leaders, there's a lot of characteristics and tactics on the scaledagileframework.com site as well, such as: http://www.scaledagileframework.com/lean-agile-leaders/ There's undoubtedly many sites with similar thoughts as these, though each seems to have a subset of characteristics and I haven't found one, single, compelling resource that seemed to have it all figured out. Cheers, Robb 0 Reply as... Cancel