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Podcast: Agility, AI and Organization Development

Podcast: Agility, AI and Organization Development

What does it truly take to build a responsive, high-performing organization—one that learns, adapts, and thrives over time? To answer that, Chris Worley unpacks what agility really means—beyond the buzzword—as well as how AI is transforming organizational life and what it takes to lead through today’s complexity.

Podcast: Understanding Agility That Transforms Organizations

Podcast: Understanding Agility That Transforms Organizations

In this podcast, Chris Worley discusses the importance of agility in modern organizations, how performance is measured, and the challenges companies face today, emphasizing organizational resilience, strategic communication, and the impact of artificial intelligence on business goals. He also explores the complexity of organizations, the evolving nature of strategy and its teaching, the critical role of leadership in a constantly changing environment, and the growing need for social responsibility.

How Organization Agility Produces Sustained Performance: Bringing Coherence to Diverse Conceptual Perspectives (Download)

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Why and how organizations change – especially in competitive and dynamic environments – are central questions in organization theory and strategic management. Organization agility (OA) has emerged as a construct to describe the way organizations adapt quickly to continuous disruption and change, and theories explaining how OA works and produces performance outcomes have proliferated.

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WEBINAR: Embracing Uncertainty with Agile Work Design Experiments

WEBINAR: Embracing Uncertainty with Agile Work Design Experiments

March 8, 2023
With John Boudreau and Alec Levenson (Host)

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WEBINAR: Fluid Talent and Technology: The “Secret Sauce” to Building Organizational Capability

WEBINAR: Fluid Talent and Technology: The “Secret Sauce” to Building Organizational Capability

October 28, 2022
with Alec Levenson and Dave Millner

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The Intersection of HR Business Partnering, Analytics and OD

The Intersection of HR Business Partnering, Analytics and OD
with Alec Levenson and Maura Stevenson

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How to Do Relevant Research – Part 3

with Dr Philip H. Mirvis and Dr. Susan Albers Mohrman

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How to Do Relevant Research – Part 2

with Dr Susan Albers Mohrman, Prof Christopher G. Worley and Prof John Boudreau

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