Agility, Innovation, and Leadership with Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He’s known for Management 3.0, for building practitioner communities, and for pushing ideas about agility, leadership, and change into formats people actually use.In this episode, we talk about what led Jurgen to leave corporate leadership, how his books each came to life, and why experimentation and fast feedback loops remain central leadership skills in complex systems. We also explore the role of community, the difference between teaching and practicing leadership, and what Jurgen learned from the pandemic about travel, craft, and balance.In this episode you will learn:why fast feedback loops matter for leaders, not only teamswhat it means to manage and lead in complex social systemsthe role communities play for belonging and learninghow Jurgen approaches writing very different kinds of bookswhy being a great teacher differs from being a great practitionerwhat makes a great talk: intake, stories, humor, no bullet pointshow the pandemic reshaped the speaker business and travel choiceshow listening widely fuels leadership developmentFind the transcript and more in the companion blog post:https://blog-alexis.monville.com/en/2022/05/13/agility-innovation-and-leadership-with-jurgen-appelo/