ABSTRACT

Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization builds on existing knowledge in the leadership, teams, and strategic management literatures to examine and explore how senior leadership teams drive the dynamic capabilities of organizations.

Organizational agility is a key dimension of organizational performance. This volume focuses on senior leadership team processes and attributes that facilitate organizational agility and the organization’s capacity to perform and rapidly pivot in response to shifting strategic demands. Chapters summarize the current state of knowledge, examine past research and theory, define research and theoretical gaps, and consider how to address these gaps. In so doing, they offer an understanding of how senior leadership teams drive and enable organizational activity.

The book is essential reading for researchers and professionals looking to understand the intersection of leadership, team dynamics, organizational psychology, organizational psychology, and strategic management, particularly in relation to organizational agility and the senior leadership team.

chapter 3|38 pages

Dynamic Capabilities and the Nature of Organizational Agility

Toward Managerial Theory

chapter 4|21 pages

Strategic Agility

Linking Strategic Framework to Agile Framework

chapter 5|37 pages

Senior Leadership Teams

Characteristics and Key Functions Enabling Strategic Agility

chapter 7|21 pages

Creating the Interpersonal Context for Enabling Organizational Agility

The Underappreciated Role of the Chief of Staff

chapter 12|19 pages

Executive Compensation

How Organizations Use Pay Mix to Maximize Top Management Team Effectiveness and Agility