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Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility
Enhance Fundamental Value and Establish Competitive Advantage with Leadership Agility Whether you're leading an organization, a team, or a project, "Stand Back and Deliver" gives you the agile leadership tools you'll need to achieve breakthrough levels of performance. This book brings together immediately usable frameworks and step-by-step processes that help you focus all...more
Paperback, 162 pages
Published
June 23rd 2009
by Addison-Wesley Professional
(first published 2009)
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Managing projects and solving difficult situations within organizations can be devilishly difficult. Complexity and uncertainty can provoke inappropriate, even counterproductive, judgments and actions. In such circumstances, you need special tools and processes to help you sort out your strategy and make better choices. Co-authors Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, Todd Little and Kent McDonald provide effective mechanisms for managing projects and solving problems. They approach business decis...more
Good tools and examples. And a quick read -- something I like in a business-y book.
The authors offer some important and easy to grasp tools that can be utilized by anyone interested in moving their organization in a more strategic direction. They encourage leaders to enable and empower their organizations rather than defaulting to a command and control style. This book is long enough to fully explain the topics and provide useful examples, but short enough that it can easily be read by a busy professional. I highly recommend this book.
Interesting concepts discussed in the book -- definitely contains material worth thinking through from a business perspective.
However, it suffers from multiple authorship (it's neither seemless nor obvious who is writing) and some annoying repetitiveness...
However, it suffers from multiple authorship (it's neither seemless nor obvious who is writing) and some annoying repetitiveness...
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