Agile leadership

  White paper on leadership agility

Agile organizations

  Article describing what agile organizations look like

  Article on the need for agile organizations

Becoming a more agile leader

  White paper on agile leadership in pivotal conversations

  Article on developing agile leaders

Developmental stages

  Our model of development stages

  Interview of Joiner and Josephs about their stage model  

  Research on developmental stages used in the book
 

Agile Leadership

Leadership Agility - Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs

This 16-page white paper summarizes many of the key points made in the book.  With minor changes this paper was published in The OD Practitioners, vol. 38, no. 3 (2006). Click to download the Leadership Agility White Paper.

Agile Organizations

"Leadership for Organizational Learning" - Bill Joiner in Transforming Leadership (ed.) John Adams.

Drawing on best practices from consistently adaptive companies, this article outlines a set of working principles for leaders to use in developing highly agile organizations.

"Organizational Effectiveness: Changing concepts for changing environments" - Joseph McCann, in Human Resouce Planning, March 2004 v27 i1 p42 (9).

McCann shows very clearly why accelerating change and increasing complexity in global business environment requires organizations to develop agility and resilience.  (McCann uses the term resilience to refer to what we call a high level of agility).

Becoming a More Agile Leader

From Disconnect to Dialogue: Transforming business results through pivotal conversations - Bill Joiner

This 29-page white paper tells the story of an executive team that transformed themselves and their business by learning a new approach to high-impact conversations.  Provides a detailed inside view of the learning process that takes place in our Pivotal Conversations program.

Developing Leadership Agility - Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs, forthcoming in the UK journal, Industrial & Commercial Training, Spring 2007.  Similar to the Leadership Agility article described above, but written for leadership development professionals.

Developmental Stages

Stages of Personal Development

Appendix B from the book.  This is our framework of developmental stages.  It is based on our own original research and a synthesis of the existing research and theory on stages of personal development.

Leadership Agility: A Conversation with Bill Joiner and Steve Josephs - Russ Volkmann

This in-depth interview explores how our work relates that of other thinkers who have contributed to the current understanding of "integral" development.

The Research Behind the Book

Appendix A from the book.  Describes how our work has been influenced by pioneering research on the relationship between leadership and stages of personal development.