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Executive, Board and Corporate Agility

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Pub. Date	: March 2022
Product Name	: Effective Executive
Product Type	: Coaching and Mentoring
Product Code	: EECM02032022
Author Name	:Colin Coulson-Thomas*
Availability	: YES
Subject/Domain	: Management
Download Format	: PDF Format
No. of Pages	: 21

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Abstract

Agility is the sense of being able to rapidly respond and adapt to changing situations and circumstances. For people, organizations and communities, new challenges and opportunities can be a requirement for remaining relevant. Different forms of executive, corporate, board and network or supply chain agility can be required for a variety of reasons. Agility may not be easy to achieve and may or may not be desirable, depending upon its purpose and the situation and circumstances. Agility has its technology and human enablers, can have costs and consequences, and may also have limits. Crises and existential threats in the contemporary business environment may require new forms of agility and relationships. They present challenges and create opportunities for individuals, organizations, communities and societies and give rise to aligned and shared interests, a requirement for collaboration and collective responses, and a need to consider agility from different perspectives and rethink what is possible. Our understanding and expectations of agility may need to change. Being quick, clever, adroit and dexterous at an individual or organizational level in navigating a succession of incidents and events may no longer be enough to cope with current and interrelated challenges. We may need to take a wider and more balanced, collective and inclusive view of agility and move on from agility to adaptation, and the systemic thinking, shared purpose, collaboration and collective transition and transformation journeys over a longer time horizon that are required to address an existential threat such as climate change.

Introduction

In dynamic contexts, and for people, organizations, communities and societies, agility is the sense of being able to rapidly respond and adapt to changing situations and circumstances. Moreover, new challenges and opportunities can be a requirement for