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ALJ Guide Daniel Gagnon was recently featured on an episode of the 21st Century Entrepreneurship podcast. With host Martin Piskoric, Daniel unravels the multi-faceted challenges confronting today's leaders. He highlights the tensions surrounding return-to-office dynamics and the pitfalls of current digital transformations. Daniel's insights into the need for unity in leadership are profound and timely, emphasizing the misalignment of short-term thinking with broader organizational visions. Gagnon's conviction shows: "You can still make a difference if you’re the only one."

Most companies have organizational structures and systems formed around skills and functions rather than end-to-end outcome-focused groups such as a product, service, business outcomes, or customer experience.

How can leaders move their teams from empowerment to agency? In this article for Emergence, Daniel Gagnon and Pete Behrens explore the difference between empowerment and agency and how leaders can introduce true agency into their organizations.

When it comes to business agility, insufficient sponsorship by management has shown to be a key challenge for organizations undergoing an agile transformation. Transformations cannot be sustained without sponsorship. Having a sponsor really means that someone with power is ready to engage emotionally with people in a way that other organizational actors aren't able to.