Inner Agility: The Key to Business Agility, Episode #9

We are embarking on a transformative journey with Michael Hamman on Inner Agility: The Key to Business Agility on Our Agile Tales. Michael believes in the potential of the workplace as a catalyst for personal, professional, and social transformation. His work with many organizations, teams, and leaders has enabled them to embrace a greater holistic team and enterprise-level agility by nurturing their inner capacity for leadership agility in the face of the complexity, volatility, and uncertainty of the 21st-century world.

In this episode of Our Agile Tales, our discussion centers around business transformation through the lens of inner agility. The conversation delves into how informal agreements within teams can evolve into organizational culture and the importance of balancing cultural mandates with flexibility. Michael shares stories illustrating the significance of observing and responding to natural patterns in organizational behavior. The dialogue also explores the delicate balance between stability and evolution in human systems, the role of resistance in fostering growth, and the risks involved in authentic communication within organizations. The discussion concludes with insights into the negative impacts of organizational cover-ups on culture and employee behavior.

00:00 Introduction to Agile Tales
01:27 Cultural References and Informal Agreements
06:35 The Role of Resistance in Organizational Culture
12:19 Practical Examples of Organizational Resistance
17:55 Cover-Ups and Organizational Dysfunction
27:47 Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser

Michael Hamman is the author of Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out. The book provides a blueprint for what it means to be an agile leader in today's complex world and offers a practical roadmap for getting there. He is the head of development at Transformation Designs and is a Co-creator at the Centre for Inner Agility.

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