By
Ricardo Viana Vargas
Executive Director of Brightline Initiative
How can you be successful in a world of permanent change and ever-growing challenges? In order to be truly successful and collaborate well with others, we need to develop a solid understanding of Personal Agility. Personal Agility it is not just about using the agile methodology. Being agile really starts with adopting a mindset that values urgency, having the emotional intelligence and leading in a way that recognizes that you are responsible for making your vision a reality.
The Personal Agility Lighthouse (PALH™) Model talks about seven sets of competencies and behaviors that each of us need to develop as effective leaders: Education Agility, Emotional Agility, Change Agility, Cerebral Agility, Political Agility, Learning Agility and Outcomes Agility. When I first came across the Personal Agility Lighthouse (PALH™) Model created by Raji Sivaraman and Michal Raczka, the founders of AgilityDiscoveries, I immediately drew a connection to Brightline’s People Manifesto. The Brightline People Manifesto puts the focus back on the power of leadership in driving positive outcomes. It begins with you, the leader. It begins with your ability to be able to lead and step-back based on what the situation demands. It begins with your capability to craft the right mix of capabilities and skillsets, to architect a culture that is built on collaboration, transparency and accountability. A truly agile leader needs to continuously strive to create conditions and dialogs to make changes individually desirable and at the same time aligned with the broader interest. Organizational change starts with change at the individual level, and leaders do need to accept, live and embody this change.
If you are interested in being a successful leader, to become better at leading people, then developing Personal Agility should be on your agenda. This book is a great addition to the body of work on leadership and truly guides leaders on how to grow and develop others.
I am sure you will enjoy reading this book and apply it in practice just as the 10th principle of the Brightline Initiative says “Celebrate success and recognize those who have done good work”!!