Leadership Agility for Organizational Agility

Organizational agility has become an imperative for companies around the globe, who want to be competitive and add value in today’s business environment of hyper change and complexity. Yet, executives and academics alike agree that the current level of agility in the vast majority of companies is not nearly what it needs to be. To develop a level of organizational agility suited to turbulent environmental conditions, executives need to place an emphasis on three areas: strategic agility, operational agility (including culture as well as structures and systems), and leadership agility. This article highlights the central role that leadership agility plays in creating agile organizations, and it presents a framework for understanding and developing leadership agility.