This blog is about my journey through a text called ‘Leadership Agility – Five levels of mastery for anticipating and initiating change’, (Joiner and Josephs, 2007).
In my recent blogs I’ve been working through four mutually reinforcing competencies that Joiner and Josephs believe contribute to leadership agility. The third mutually reinforcing competency is creative agility.
Being a successful leader requires us to turn actual or potential problems into desired results. And as we’ve often discussed, in today’s environment these problems are frequently tangled and complex, or ill-structured, meaning it isn’t as well defined as perhaps we would like. In other words these are ‘adaptive problems’ rather than ‘technical problems’. These problems have multiple plausible solutions which start with the challenge of defining the problem in and of itself as it won’t present as a problem we’ve commonly seen before. Often there is missing information, cross disciplinary, organsiational and cultural boundaries and to top it off, need to be solved in conjunction with with other problems. Continue reading
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