The Government Leader's Field Guide to Organizational Agility

This is the first book to fully adapt the principles of agility for government leaders who want to make their organizations more effective and nimble while better serving their public mission.

This practical resource will equip government leaders at all levels with evidence-based, hands-on guidance for transforming their organizations, enabling them to better serve the public and their customers. While many books focus on organizational agility for leaders of for-profit companies, this is the first one tailored to the unique requirements government leaders face. They must find a way to accomplish their mission while navigating constant change.
 
Government leaders at all levels must maneuver their organizations through new, often complex challenges, ranging from new laws that impact their agencies, new technologies, changes in leadership, and unexpected events. By explaining how to manage and organize work differently, this guide will help leaders weather the storm of that constant change so they can help their agencies realize their missions and serve the public interest.

 “A must-read for anyone in government seeking to successfully lead in a rapidly changing world. Miller and Kirkpatrick have assembled an easy-to-read guide chock-full of useful examples illustrating how to lead with agility and drive the kind of impact all leaders seek.” 
—David Brown, CEO, Learning Tree International
 
“The fresh and insightful analysis presented in this book is a gift to all leaders seeking to help their organizations become more agile. Beyond that, it provides a bonus—plentiful and easy-to-apply tools for assessing and developing each piece of the organizational work.”
—Ellen Van Velsor, PhD, Senior Fellow Emerita, Center for Creative Leadership
 
“The Government Leader’s Field Guide to Organizational Agility provides practical advice, tips, and more than a dozen tools to help government leaders embed agility into their organizations. Adopting a very human-centered approach to create and maintain psychological safety, government leaders are equipped to continually sense, interpret, and respond to the external and internal factors that are likely to have an impact on the organization's ability to carry out its mission.”
—James D. Stockmal, Past President, Association for Strategic Planning