Bill Joiner’s Leadership Agility Blog

Continued writing with occasional podcasts on Leadership Agility, the research-based book on stages of personal and leadership development. This blog captures and extends the book's key ideas; shares new insights, research, and applications from client work.  Comments welcome!  You can also follow Bill on Twitter: @leaderagility

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3rd Leadership Agility Coaching Group

Debbie Whitestone and I started a third Learning Group for coaches yesterday. As with the first group, this is a 6-month series for experienced coaches who want to add the Leadership Agility perspective and coaching methods to their repertoires. Building on learnings from doing two previous groups along similar lines, we’ll meet together for one […]

Agile Leadership for IT Projects

For those who haven’t yet discovered it, there’s a very robust movement afoot in the IT world called Agile. The original focus was on identifying and promoting agile methods for developing software. The focus has since expanded to include agile project management, agile leadership, and agile organizations. (This interest in agile organizations dovetails with work […]

Business Book Review on Leadership Agility

Business Book Review is a company that takes what they consider the top 1% of business books and provides downloadable 10-page summaries of the book. We were honored to have Leadership Agility chosen as one of these books. The review just appeared on the BBR website today.

Mini-Workshop on Leadership Agility

I did a public mini-workshop on Leadership Agility yesterday, a half-day session sponsored by the Sawyer Business School and the Institute for Executive Education at Suffolk University. For recap of the event, click here.

2nd Leadership Agility Coaching Group

Debbie Whitestone and I had a the first meeting today of our 2nd Learning Group on Leadership Agility Coaching. We have a great group of eight experienced coaches, some of whom have already had some significant exposure to stage development psychology. A primary focus for this first session was on how to work collaboratively with […]

Ed Zore’s Agility Imperative

I recently came across another formulation of the Agility Imperative we describe at the beginning the book. Ed Zore, CEO of Northwestern Mutual, says, “The world is more complex and fast-moving all the time, and that isn’t going away.” Here, he succinctly captures the two powerful global forces that are triggering the need for new […]

Leadership Agility and Leadership for Change

For the past 9 years, I’ve served as an adjunct faculty member for an outstanding mid-career leadership development program based at Boston College: Leadership for Change. This program is the product of a remarkable collaboration between the Dept. of Sociology and the Carroll School of Management at BC. (Bill Torbert is also on the faculty […]

Understanding Leadership Agility

Lori Grant, who writes a popular blog for early-career knowledge workers, just posted a wonderful review of Leadership Agility. Check it out here.  It begins as follows … Every now and then, a great business book comes along that will eventually become a classic read for aspiring knowledge workers who are managing their careers up […]

ChangeWise Leadership Agility 360

Great meeting today with Bernie Cullen and George Klemp, partners at Cambria Consulting. As a result of this meeting, Cambria and ChangeWise have decided to join forces to develop a 360 instrument based on the research that went into Leadership Agility. This will be an online, research-based instrument, the first to provide 360-feedback on a […]

Post-heroic Leadership

Had coffee this morning with Allan Cohen, Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College. Cohen and his co-author, David Bradford (now Dean of the Executive Program on Leadership at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business) originated a key distinction we make in the book – between heroic and post-heroic leadership. (This distinction first appeared in […]

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