Tag: leadership skills

Overview:  This book “Improv-Ing Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity” explores how the simple rules and principles used by improvisational actors can help agile teams collaborate more effectively, and how it helps to purposefully work within constraints and unlock creativity.

Inside this book, you will find nearly 50 techniques and the games specially designed for agile teams which are completely explained in step-by-step instructions. The games illustrated in this book are based on five different principles that are similar to the ones that are used in improvisational theatres, listed below:

• SAFETY
• SPONTANEITY
• STORYTELLING
• STATUS
• SENSITIVITY

Authors:

Paul Goddard

Published In:

2015

Overview: The Agility Shift shows business leaders exactly how to make the radical mindset and strategy shift necessary to create an agile, entrepreneurial organization that can innovate and thrive in complex, ever-changing contexts. As author Pamela Meyer explains, there is much more involved than a reconfiguration of the org chart and job descriptions. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control at the very foundation of most management training and business practice. Despite most leaders’ approaches, “Agility is not simply accelerated planning.”  Unlike many agility books on the market, The Agility Shift provides specific, actionable strategies and tactics for leaders at all levels of the organization to put into practice immediately to improve agility and achieve results.

Authors:

Pamela Meyer

Published In:

2015