The Agility Shift

Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations

De: Pamela Meyer

Narrado por: Karen Saltus

As contrary as it sounds, "planning" - as we traditionally understand the term - can be the worst thing a company can do. Consider that volatile weather events disrupt trusted supply chains, markets, and promised delivery schedules. Ever-shifting geopolitical tensions as well as internal political upheaval within US and global governments derail long-planned new ventures. Technology failures block opportunities. Competitors suddenly change their products or release dates; your team cannot meet the pace of innovations in your market niche, leaving you sidelined. There are myriad ways in the current business environment for a company's well-considered business plans to go awry.

Most business schools continue to prepare managers to be effective in stable and predictable environments, conditions that, if they ever existed at all, are long gone. The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mind-set and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control at the very foundation of most management training and business practice.

Despite most leaders' approaches, "Agility is not simply accelerated planning." Unlike many agility books on the market, The Agility Shift provides specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization to put into practice immediately to improve agility and achieve results.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2015 Pamela Meyer (P)2015 Gildan Media, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Meyer provides a powerful framework and accompanying suggestions...to help you immediately start creating an effective culture of agile leaders and teams." (DeBorah Lenchard, director of education & talent development, Spot Trading LLC)

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Content is good, but the narrator is terrible

The intonations of the narrator makes it impossible to understand what's read. Robots read better.

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The content is okay but not very recolutionizing but the narraters voice really made this an unpleasant experience. To such an extend that I returned the book.

Unlistenable. Robotic voice put me to sleep

This book may be good but trying to listen to this monotonous presenter is impossible. Every time I try I realize after a few minutes that I switched off in my mind. I genuinely checked the website to see if it was a person reading the book or a computer program reading it. I’m still not sure.
I honestly don’t know if the content is good because I couldn’t continue listening.