We are in the era of change or perish. Not just because a pandemic that has rocked the world’s economy, but because we are in an era when customers want services and products on their terms. They don’t want to knock around a website looking for answers. They want rapid fast service with a smile and apps that respond to their needs as well as security and optimization of their mobile devices.

In today's live, Agility for All's Founder and CEO, Indra A. Books, talks about how to encourage innovation through experimentation within an organization as part of not only psychological safety but in creating an environment of empowerment. This is S04E04 in the series on Leadership Next Level.

If we bandy about the phrase Fail Fast, Fail Often we should just append it with Create Chaos because a team cannot survive and produce value if they are constantly trying to stabilize from frequent and often unnecessary change. In today’s blog we explore what fail fast is really meant to be and how we can use it to our advantage in a psychologically safe way.

In today's live, Agility for All's Founder and CEO, Indra A. Books, takes a look at psychological safety and what failure looks like in your organization. Is it OK for failure to happen in the spirit of innovation and experimentation? This is S04E03 in the series on Leadership Next Level.

When you tend towards seeing yourself as inadequate, feeling that it’s all your fault, or that life is in some way unfair – you are experiencing the common side effects of a fixed mindset. It’s also likely you see your abilities or intelligence in one or more areas as fixed and unchangeable. The alternate perspective (or filter) you can apply is that of a growth mindset.

In today's live, Agility for All's Founder and CEO, Indra A. Books, explores the Growth Mindset and how without it you cannot be an agile leader embracing the agile mindset. This is S04E02 in the series on Leadership Next Level.

It was only months later that I was struck by the similarities in how we were choosing to use (or abuse) this metric and how I’ve seen organizations historically misuse them. I had fallen into two of the many Metrics Traps I’d so often cautioned my clients to avoid. Once the “Ah-ha” moment sunk in and we course-corrected, our approach completely transformed for the better.

Agility for All's Founder and CEO, Indra A. Books resumes their Live series with the first episode in Series 4 entitled Are you an Agile Leader? In this episode she discusses what makes an agile leader and how important it is to embrace vulnerability and change.

If what they are selling sounds too good to be true, it is. If you are abdicating the work to someone else and expect lasting results, you are wrong. Consultants and coaches who work with you should be ensuring that you have clearly identified the problem to solve and that there is a clear path to a solution.

Here we are in a new year, but we are our same selves. So how can we be more aware of where we are and where we are going? In today’s blog, Kyle Richardson examines how we should take a mindful journey through our lives examining each moment and action and focusing on those things that bring value while understanding that there is no easy button or simple path. All paths are a process and an experience which may have us taking steps back before taking steps forward.