Forewords xi<br>Preface xv<br>Acknowledgments xxi<br>About the Author xxiii <br> <br> Part I: Agile Leader—Unleash Your Leadership Potential 1<br><br>Chapter 1: How It All Started 3 <br>The Need for Change 6 <br> <br> Chapter 2: Leadership Is a State of Mind 9 <br>What Is Agile? 9 <br> <br> Chapter 3: Organizational Evolution 25 <br>Organization 1.0: Traditional 25 <br>Organization 2.0: Knowledge 28 <br>Organization 3.0: Agile 31 <br>Reflect on Your Organization 34 <br> <br> Chapter 4: The Agile Leader 37 <br>The Servant Leader 40 <br>The Leader-Leader 44 <br>The Leadership Agility: From Expert to Catalyst 48 <br> <br> Chapter 5: The Agile Leadership Model 75 <br>Get Awareness 77 <br>Embrace It 78 <br> <br> Chapter 6: Competencies 87 <br>Vision and Purpose 88 <br>Three Levels of Reality 92 <br>High Dream and Low Dream 94 <br>Bringing Down the Vision 95 <br>Motivation 100 <br>Engagement 107 <br>Super-chickens 109 <br>Feedback 113 <br>Giving Feedback 116 <br>Learn from Feedback 119 <br>Decision 122 <br>Sociocracy 124 <br>Power and Control Cycles 126 <br>Collaboration 128 <br>Facilitation 132 <br>Four-Player Model 134 <br>Coaching 139 <br>Change 141 <br>The Change Dynamic 142 <br>Force Fields 145 <br>Competencies Self-Evaluation 148 <br> <br> Chapter 7: Meta-skills 153 <br>The Me Domain 154 <br>The We Domain 155 <br>The World Domain 156 <br> <br> Chapter 8: Building an Agile Organization 161 <br>Inside Out 162 <br>Evolutionary Purpose 166 <br>Emergent Leadership 168 <br>Culture 172 <br>“We” Culture 183 <br>Competing Values 194 <br>Network Structure 200 <br>Smart versus Healthy 202 <br>Reinventing Organizations 205 <br> <br> Part II: The Different Parts of an Agile Organization 211 <br> <br> Chapter 9: Business Agility 213 <br>Agile at the Executive Level 216 <br>The CEO in an Agile Organization 220 <br>Agile Board of Directors 223 <br> <br> Chapter 10: Agile HR and Finance 229 <br>Agile HR 229 <br>Agile Finance 253 <br> <br> Chapter 11: Tools and Practices 257 <br>System Coaching and Facilitation 257 <br>Open Space 259 <br>World Café 270 <br>Systems Thinking 274 <br>Radical Transparency 277 <br>Experiment, Inspect, and Adapt 285 <br>Be Inclusive 286 <br>Have Courage 288 <br>Growing Trust 290 <br>Teamwork 296 <br>Building Communities 298 <br> <br> Chapter 12: Summary 303 <br>Organizational Perspective 304 <br>Agile Leader Perspective 307 <br>What's Next 310 <br> <br> Bibliography 313<br>Index 321