Short Answers To BIG Questions About Agile Leaders

Short Answers To BIG Questions About Agile Leaders

What Is an Agile Leader?

Three qualities define an agile leader.

First, agile leaders are comfortable with uncertainty. They’re willing to hear and say, “I don’t know.” They understand not everything can be stated with certainty. This means they can accept it when a team says they’ll be done in five or six months.

Second, agile leaders guide; they don’t command. An agile leader does not tell people the specific steps to take to achieve a goal. Instead, the agile leader creates a culture of teamwork, transparency, and continuous improvement. This environment empowers team members to achieve great things.

Third, agile leaders do less but accomplish more. Agile leaders are rarely a flurry of activity. Instead, they motivate and inspire others to do more of the right things.

Jazz great Thelonious Monk was known for leaving silence between the notes he played. He said, “What you don't play can be more important than what you do.”

Like Monk, an agile leader knows that what they don’t do–where they leave space–can be more important than what they do.

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