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oapen-20.500.12657-640512023-07-20T15:00:42Z Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization Zaccaro, Stephen J. Hiller, Nathan J. Klimoski, Richard J. Occupational & industrial psychology; psychology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMJ Occupational & industrial psychology While organizations need to be agile for ongoing success, becoming and remaining agile, nimble, and flexible is difficult, and requires the involvement and alignment of systems, processes, and people. At the epicenter of never-ending push to maintain agility is the senior leadership team. This team is the focus on this book. In this chapter, we describe the purposes for the book, including our intent to build some bridges across different but related scholarly communities around organizational agility. We summarize definitions of agility and present a model that links several key elements and processes that contribution to agile performance. We conclude with a brief summary of each chapter in this volume. 2023-07-20T14:54:33Z 2023-07-20T14:54:33Z 2018 book 9780367373337 9780367373344 9780429353161 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64051 eng Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429353161 10.4324/9780429353161 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 020a01cd-f50c-4258-acbe-19780ab2ab4f 9780367373337 9780367373344 9780429353161 Routledge open access
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While organizations need to be agile for ongoing success, becoming and remaining agile, nimble, and flexible is difficult, and requires the involvement and alignment of systems, processes, and people. At the epicenter of never-ending push to maintain agility is the senior leadership team. This team is the focus on this book. In this chapter, we describe the purposes for the book, including our intent to build some bridges across different but related scholarly communities around organizational agility. We summarize definitions of agility and present a model that links several key elements and processes that contribution to agile performance. We conclude with a brief summary of each chapter in this volume.
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