THE AGILE LEADER 2nd EDITION.

How to create an agile business in the digital age

The newly revised edition of The Agile Leader will teach you how you can not only survive in the context of digital transformation, but also thrive and grow, by adopting a powerful agile leadership model.

Cirrus CEO Dr Simon Hayward lays out clearly in eight steps how agile leaders empower their team to make decision quickly, evaluate correctly where the biggest opportunities are and mould their strategies around market dynamics.

If there’s one leadership skill that successful businesses have in spades, it’s the ability to enable teams to adapt and grow within complex eco-systems of clients, partners and suppliers. By focusing on teamwork and collaboration, as well as promoting shared decision making and ruthless prioritising, leaders can transform the way they work and how their teams function.

Simon Hayward is an agile leadership expert and in this new edition he distills years of leadership and agile research into an actionable eight step plan brought to life with examples of agile digital businesses.

Learn how to become agile and make digital transformation and delivery part of your business as usual.

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“In his thought-provoking and necessary new book, Simon Hayward shares his deep understanding and sharp analysis of how organisations can and must embrace change, at speed and scale, to achieve growth.”

Julie Sweet, CEO, Accenture

“The primary cause of failure is lack of agile leadership which Simon Hayward’s book address forcefully. Reading it may save your company.”

Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum and [email protected] and Signatory of the Agile Manifesto

“I would recommend this book to any leader who wants to improve their organization’s clarity of thinking and speed of decision making.”

Christie Smith, Global Lead, Talent and Organization, Accenture

“Simon’s book offers a well-researched, thoughtful guide, for those wanting to make the leap. Like any good leadership coach, he reminds us we must first look to ourselves, before asking others to follow.”

Bill Winters, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank

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The Agile Leader: How to create an agile business in the digital age, provides a practical blueprint to create a more agile organisation.

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Dr Simon Hayward is Founder and CEO of Cirrus, a leading provider of leadership development and change programmes for large organisations. He has a wealth of strategic leadership experience gained over 30 years in consulting, with clients that include BT, HSBC, Marks and Spencer, Standard Chartered Bank and Three.

Simon has been featured in the Financial Times, Management Today, Forbes, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Fast Company, BBC Radio 4 and Sky News. He is an Honorary Professor at Manchester Business School and is based in Manchester, England.

Learn how to become agile and make digital transformation and delivery part of your business as usual.