We are embarking on a transformative journey with Michael Hamman on Inner Agility: The Key to Business Agility on Our Agile Tales. Michael believes in the potential of the workplace as a catalyst for personal, professional, and social transformation. His work with many organizations, teams, and leaders has enabled them to embrace a greater holistic team and enterprise-level agility by nurturing their inner capacity for leadership agility in the face of the complexity, volatility, and uncertainty of the 21st-century world.

In this episode, we explore the definition and significance of Inner Agility, its impact on effective decision-making and team collaboration, and its role in environments that support self-organizing and empowered teams amidst complexity.

00:00 Introduction to Agile Tales
01:19 Meet Michael Hamman: A Journey of Inner Agility
07:48 Defining Inner Agility
09:55 Connecting Inner Agility to Organizational Agility
15:04 The Role of Inner Agility in Agile Teams
16:43 Activity: Cultivating Inner Agility
20:13 Reflecting on Inner Agility
25:14 Practicing Inner Agility
28:14 Conclusion

Michael Hamman is the author of Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out. The book provides a blueprint for what it means to be an agile leader in today's complex world and offers a practical roadmap for getting there. He is the head of development at Transformation Designs and is a Co-creator at the Centre for Inner Agility.

You can find Michael Hamman on LinkedIn or peruse his work at Vertical Facilitator.

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Clarke “The Bottleneck Guy” Ching created the Agile TOC Method (ATM) and has been using it for more than 25 years to help CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders solve the most vexing productivity problems. He is the author of Rolling Rocks Downhill, CorkScrew Solutions, and The Bottleneck Rules.

The ATM model takes teams from burnout busy to productive buzz, helps them crank out delivery while keeping everyone happy, and minimizes customer complaints by satisfying their impossible expectations.

You can find more information about Clark and his work at https://www.clarkeching.com/.

Note: In this podcast, Clark mentions the book The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.

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Clarke “The Bottleneck Guy” Ching created the Agile TOC Method (ATM) and has been using it for more than 25 years to help CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders solve the most vexing productivity problems. He is the author of Rolling Rocks Downhill, CorkScrew Solutions, and The Bottleneck Rules.

The ATM model takes teams from burnout busy to productive buzz, helps them crank out delivery while keeping everyone happy, and minimizes customer complaints by satisfying their impossible expectations.

You can find more information about Clark and his work at https://www.clarkeching.com/.

Note: In this podcast, Clark mentions the book The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.

Visit us at https://www.ouragiletales.com/about