Based on 3D Agile Leader Model, the three dimensions required of a “solid” agile leader — Servant Leader, Value Creator, and Intrapreneur — are the three critical roles a manager must assume in order to become an agile leader. Each dimension comprises three themes. …

Organizational agile transformation calls for four major shifts. The change in management — from traditional managers to servant leaders — is the last one. The prevailing management paradigm today is still that for mass production. Despite some improvements in terms of responsibility delegation, information transparency, or participation of employees in…

Organizational agile transformation requires four major shifts. The change in personnel from functions to roles is the third one. It involves a shift of people in an organization from having narrow and prescriptive functions to taking much broader roles. As it happens, when people with narrow functions are told what…

Based on 3D Agile Leader Model, the three dimensions required of a “solid” agile leader — Servant Leader, Value Creator, and Intrapreneur — are the three critical roles a manager must assume in order to become an agile leader. Each dimension comprises three themes. …

Based on 3D Agile Leader Model, the three dimensions required of a “solid” agile leader — Servant Leader, Value Creator, and Intrapreneur — are the three critical roles a manager must assume in order to become an agile leader. Each dimension comprises three themes. …

How to convert a traditional manager into an agile leader is a wildly popular and repeatedly discoursed management topic, given that existing managers themselves are often observed to be the stumbling blocks in organizations’ agile transformation. Three-Dimensional Agile Leader model is a practical tool we can use to understand the…

Standing for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, the acronym VUCA was once used by US Army War College to describe the unstable world after the end of the Cold War. …

Organizational Absorption: Organizational absorption is the ability or capacity of an organization to build in business resilience by creating buffers or defensive mechanisms against unfavorable shifts in a competitive environment. For example, adopting low fixed costs, reaching economies of scale, building both tangible assets (raw material deposits and real estate)…

“How much are you paid?” Peggy asked her friend Lilian who’d just been hired by the same department in the same bank where Peggy had worked for three years. “Well,” replied Lilian after a long hesitation, a little surprised at her friend’s rather straightforward if not rude question but couldn’t…