1st Edition
Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times Integrating Your Ego, Eco and Intuitive Intelligence
This thought-provoking and engaging book is for you, whatever your seniority, in the private or public sector – if you are curious about the role and purpose of leadership in a turbulent world.
It will help you become a more agile leader through understanding and integrating your ego, eco and intuitive intelligence. You will gain a deeper understanding of your unique leadership blend through a short diagnostic inventory, bringing insight about your strengths and what may be tripping you up. The book offers tips, ideas and practical suggestions on how to develop your ability to use the three intelligences in order to expand your leadership repertoire. It will help you enable the teams you lead to be more flexible, responsive and autonomous.
The authors have drawn on their vast experience from the boardroom to the shop floor, the classroom and research around the world, to write an easy-to-digest yet ground-breaking book that deals with the root causes of today’s twenty-first-century leadership challenges. Its contents are straightforward and widely applicable.
Introduction
1. The quest for agility in a turbulent world
2. Rethinking leadership: some theoretical underpinning
3. Ego intelligence: the shaper
4. Intuitive intelligence: the sensor
5. Eco intelligence: the integrator
6. The personal development journey
7. Leadership and cultural agility
8. Being an agile leader – what is your blend?
Appendix: Robert Dilts' Logical Levels Model for ego, eco and intuitive leadership
Biography
Sharon Olivier is Senior Faculty and Consultant in Leadership and HR Development at Hult Ashridge Executive Education. She is a contributing author of Inspiring Leadership and Diamonds in the Dust.
Frederick Holscher, PhD, is a visiting professor at various business schools, and Adjunct Faculty at Hult Ashridge Executive Education. He is editor of Diamonds in the Dust and contributing author of Inspiring Leadership and Development is for People.
Colin Williams is Professor of Practice and Adjunct Faculty at Hult Ashridge Executive Education. He is founder and Director of Williams Leadership Development Ltd and co-author of Living Leadership: A Practical Guide for Ordinary Heroes.
"Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times cuts to the chase. It challenges traditional leadership thinking and offers an intriguing alternative approach to redefine our ‘new normal’ post-COVID-19 world!"
Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There"This is such a timely book. Among so many books on leadership, this one stands on its own level, almost as though it has been written from the future. Sharon, Frederick and Colin have re-envisioned leadership in an entirely new way, creating a deeply accessible and inspiring roadmap for a new kind of leader. In the challenging times that lie ahead, we cannot move forwards by thinking in the same way as we used to. Now we need something entirely new, something that has never been done before, and for that, we need a new leader. This book is for those who dare to throw away the old deck of cards and step into a whole new world."
Richard Rudd, author and founder of Gene Keys
"Ego, eco and intuitive intelligence: a great way to frame a leaders challenges and responses."
Gert de Winter, Group CEO, Bâloise
"Olivier, Holscher and Williams have captured the essence of what works when leading in todays’ unpredictable world."
Jan-Erik Kjerpeseth, CEO, Sparebanken Vest
"This extraordinary leadership book is an essential read. The authors pool their vast experience from boardroom, classroom, field research and client experience, in an easy-to-digest yet ground-breaking approach that deals with the root causes of today’s 21st century leadership challenges."
Giles Hutchins, Chair of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, author of Future Fit and Regenerative Leadership
"Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times distils the essence of good leadership in a complex environment in a very innovative and fresh way. I found this book indeed to be very helpful and relevant to my job as a company leader."
Cristiano Venturini, CEO, iGuzzini illuminazione S.p.A
"Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times is perhaps the most apt leadership book for the new disrupted world we find ourselves in. Identifying an accessible framework of leadership intelligence with practical application."
Sophie Dekkers, Scheduling Director, EasyJet
"Change is situational, transformation is psychological. This important book provides a compelling framework to support leaders in their transitions by decoding complexity in a helpful, practical and engaging fashion. Truly: not to be missed."
Paolo Gallo, author of The Compass & The Radar
"Leadership – not easy but not complicated. Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times distils the essence of good leadership in a complex environment. I fully recommend this book for practicing leaders."
Simon Western, Chief Executive Analytical-Network Coaching, Adjunct Professor, University College Dublin, author of Leadership: A Critical Text
"This book made me pause and review my assumptions and beliefs about leadership: what works and what doesn’t. It provides practical tips for leading in uncertainty."
Kai Siedlatzek, Head of Product Controlling, AUDI AG
"This book invites us to stop and think through our assumptions about leadership. It provides interesting insights for a more effective approach for uncertain times."
Pierre Lourens, CEO of the Impala Bafokeng Trust – Impala Platinum
"This book on Eco, Ego, and Intuitive intelligences captures the essence of what works when leading in today's’ unpredictable world: it could not be more relevant."
Heather McElwee, Executive Director, Pittsburg Glass Center
"This book provides a refreshing new way to frame ideas and research around leadership – drawing on their own experience, and that of colleagues and business school participants, Olivier, Holscher and Williams weave stories and academic research into a compelling dialogue."
Vicki Culpin, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Hult International Business School
"Agile Leadership for Turbulent Times challenges traditional thinking about leadership and offers an intriguing alternative approach."
Robert Kovach, PhD, Director, Critical Leaders & Teams, People & Communities, Cisco
"The authors manage to reduce the complexity of leadership by using an uncommon amount of common sense."
Peter Burman, President, Corporate Solutions and English Centers at EF Education First
"Finally, an exciting, new 2020 perspective on intelligence: essential for leaders and individuals in the new world of work. The authors are to be commended."
Peter Lawrence, former CEO and Board Advisor
"This book strongly stimulates leaders to give their best and grow beyond the ordinary! A fantastic framework reflecting on all facets of leadership, and finally including the always missing piece of the puzzle – intuitive intelligence. A must-read for agile leadership!"
Annabelle Mieth, Advanced Business Development and Marketing, Continental Corporation
"The Old World is no more. A New World awaits us. This book will help leaders navigate uncharted waters."
Satish Roopa, Council Member, Da Vinci Institute: School of Business Leadership. Committee Member, Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers.
"Olivier, Holscher and Williams invite us to stop, to think and to review our assumptions about agile leadership in a world which demands more agility than ever. Drawing on a broad theoretical underpinning this book is for leaders at all levels who are relishing the daily challenge being their best for others. It provides a great framework and interesting insights on how to master 3 leadership intelligences – ego, eco, intuitive – for a more effective approach for uncertain times!"
John Firth, Founder and CEO, The Firth Group
"I find this leadership framework highly applicable to union management relations, especially eco-intelligence. Thank you!"
Kaizer Thibedi, Founding leader and former Central Executive Committee (CEC) Member, COSATU (Congress of South African Trades Unions)
"A novel perspective on three different but complementary approaches to leading. Ego, eco and intuitive intelligence is a great way to frame a leaders challenges and responses."
Megan Reitz, author of Speak Up and Mind Time, Thinkers50 Radar
"Olivier, Holscher and Williams offer an innovative approach to reframing leadership."
Vlatka Hlupic, author of The Management Shift and Humane Capital
