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; and shows how Leadership Agility relates to current issues and news items. Comments welcome! You can also follow Bill Joiner on Twitter: @leaderagilityPracticing the Art of “Stepping Back”
March 14, 2013 by Bill Joiner
Being absorbed in our work is a good thing in many ways, better than being distracted or feeling unengaged. Getting into the flow of our daily tasks is energizing, and it helps us get our work done with a certain level of efficiency and effectiveness. At the same time, we are so busy in our [...]
The Power of Integrative Thinking
March 6, 2013 by Bill Joiner
In her classic book, The Change Masters, Rosabeth Kanter found that the key difference between truly innovative change leaders and those who focused only on incremental change lay came down to two different mindsets. The truly innovative leaders – those who succeeded in leading change projects that crossed boundaries and addressed formerly unseen organizational opportunities [...]
Today’s Best Change Leaders
January 19, 2013 by Bill Joiner
On January 17, I presented a ChangeWise webinar called “Today’s Best Change Leaders: What can you learn from them?” To access the webinar, click here to pull up the slides and then click on the audio clip below. This webinar draws on the 5-years of research that went into writing Leadership Agility. It addresses questions [...]
How to Build an Agile Leader
October 11, 2012 by Bill Joiner
Last month, Chief Learning Officer magazine published my article, “How to Build an Agile Leader.” I’ve received a lot of positive feedback about it, so I am sharing it here. (Use the link below – you don’t need a subscription). If you are a leadership development professional of any kind, I think this article will [...]
Leadership Agility and the Greek Economy
May 12, 2012 by Bill Joiner
During the second half of April, Debbie Whitestone and I were asked to come to Athens, Greece. I spoke about Leadership Agility at an event arranged by an outstanding organization called CEO Clubs of Greece. We also led two Leadership Agility workshops. One was a public workshop sponsored, again, by CEO Clubs of Greece, and [...]
