Agility is the Holy Grail for today’s corporations. Sleek, speedy, nimble, and athletic—who doesn’t want that? That’s why most CEOs boast about leading agile companies. Sadly, even though a CEO sees her business as an agile panther in the jungle, in most cases, it’s more likely a clumsy, lumbering elephant, crashing into obstacles instead of adroitly avoiding them.
The term Agile comes from software development, where teams achieve success by undertaking small batches of work and fully completing them rather than engaging in months-long entire systems design sessions.
I came of professional age before anyone boasted about corporate agility and before Agile became formalized as a software development philosophy. During these ancient ...
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