Leadership agility isn't just another tool for your toolkit.  It's the master competency needed for sustained success in today's turbulent economy.  (v)

Leadership Agility draws on a strong research base and three decades of experience consulting, coaching, and training leaders in companies based in the United States, Canada, and Europe.  Although most of our stories and examples come from the business world, this guide is also designed for managers in the government and nonprofit sectors, in professional firms, in academic and religious institutions, in fact, for anyone interested in developing as a person and becoming a more effective leader.  (v)

[This book] not only provides the first in-depth examination of leadership agility, it also describes five distinct levels that leaders move through as they master this much-needed competency.  Strikingly, the research reports in this book indicates that less than 10 percent of managers have mastered the level of agility needed for sustained success in today's turbulent economy. (v)

Leadership Agility is based on an integral perspective that approaches leadership development from the outside in and from the inside out. From an outside-in perspective it highlights the skills needed for agile leadership in complex, rapidly changing environments.  ..[It] also approaches leadership agility from the inside-out: It identifies the mental and emotional capacities that work together to enable agile leadership." (vi)

While specific future developments [in the world economy] are increasingly difficult to predict, we can make two predictions with great certainty:  The pace of change will continue to increase, and the level of complexity and interdependence will continue to grow.  For more than a decade, organizational change experts, acutely aware of these powerful trends, have stressed the need to develop "agile" companies - organizations that anticipate and respond to rapidly changing conditions.  ... However... very few firms have developed the level of agility needed to keep pace with the ever-increasing degree of change and complexity in their business environment. (5-6)

Based on data collected from more than six hundred managers, we've found that there are five distinct levels in the mastery of leadership agility: Expert, Achiever, Catalyst, Co-Creator, and Synergist. (6)

All our research indicates that level of leadership agility and personality type are completely unrelated variables. Every personality type can be found at each level of leadership agility.  This  means that, no matter what your personality type happens to be, you have the potential to master advanced levels of agility. (12)