Today, I want to draw your attention to a short discussion of some key elements of being a leader in a volatile unpredictable time - being an Agile Leader.  Necessarily this requires being able to distinguish between simple, complicated and complex decisions and the ability to use the appropriate process and style for each (or suffer very negative consequences.   In this discussion, Trish Gorman of Columbia Business School summarizes her list of the 6 traits of an agile leader.   One additional point that I would suggest, is to broaden the "awareness" attribute to include self and team as it is the foundation. Of course, we are biased as this is the core of our practice.

Back in 2003, we started a new process with executive teams who had just been through debriefs on their behavioral assessments focusing on both their  leadership, interpersonal and personal effectiveness behaviors and how effective they are in initiating, motivating, implementing and maintaining in each area.  We found that even after positive even emotional experiences improving their self-awareness and better understanding their causal factors underlying their behavior,  a few weeks later,  many reverted back to previous behaviors  with little benefit.   We hypothesized that if they had to share their perceptions of others and then share their actual behavioral tendencies (assessment sc