The 3rd State of Agile Culture Report

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Discover the impact of leadership styles on agile culture, business agility, organisational resilience and performance in a recession environment

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The benefit of agility in organisations is ever-increasing, yet cultural issues are a leading impediment to its successful adoption.

Our first two reports looked at the key cultural and behavioural components that create an agile culture and drive organisational agility. Our research found that leadership is an essential enabling factor to building a strong agile culture.

Our Third State of Agile Culture Report in 2023 examines the impact of different leadership styles on agile culture, business agility, organisational resilience and performance.

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Top Insights

A strong agile culture can increase commercial performance by 277%

Post-heroic leadership is highly correlated with a strong agile culture (0.82 correlation)
Post-heroic leaders are closely associated to organisations which can respond more quickly and effectively to market challenges and opportunities (0.86 correlation)
Only 10% of leaders demonstrate post-heroic leadership qualities
Perceived strength of leadership agility has stalled at 47% compared to 56% pre-pandemic
71% of employees do not believe their leaders are capable of responding to market changes

‘When you’re introducing agile to a new organisation, you can spend too long thinking and talking about what you’re going to do… but it’s when people are feeling it and breathing it that people understand what you’re trying to achieve through empowerment’.

Craig Woodhouse

Technology Delivery Director, Schroders Personal Wealth