cutting through the complexity & hype
We live in an Exploding Universe of Agile Inspiration
Cluttered with an army of agile software development evangelists with a confusing array of competing methodologies, digital transformation case studies typically of larger corporations in service businesses like banks and retail giants, big consultancy houses with agility practices pushing out research, books and magazine articles and classical coaches, consultants, and trainers hitching their wagon to the agile train!
Sharing Unique Insights at the Intersection of an Unusual Combination of Agility Experiences in 3 Worlds
In the Real World, I started my career working as a Petroleum Engineer on offshore oil & gas drilling rigs and now study other Everyday Agile Leaders in the real world (Fighter Pilots, Navy Seals, Fire Fighters and others) to interpret their secrets. In the Business World I ended up running the Aerospace Division of a British public company, translating the agility secrets into business terms. In the Advisory World as an author, keynote speaker, facilitator, coach & board member, including 15 years as a CEO peer group chair & speaker, facilitating CEOs, Executives and their teams in applying the agility secrets with their leadership, teams and organizations.
Getting to the Essence & Revealing the Myths, Mysteries and Magic of Agility
Agility is the ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances [VUCA] while out-executing our competition and stakeholder expectations (of customers, employees, vendors, debt-holders/shareholders). An Agility Operating System is complex which it is very easy to massively over simplify. The trick is to move through the complexity, revealing the myths, mysteries and magic of agility along the way and getting to the powerful essence of agile leadership and teamwork, from which you can then start building out organizational agility.
Avoiding the Mental Traps
Smaller companies, such a startups, small-to-medium-sized-enterprises and mid-market-corporations, can easily fall into the mental trap of believing they are naturally agile, instead of which they can easily be naturally frenetic! Larger corporations can easily fall into the trap of being bureaucratic, believing they are naturally not agile. In both cases, because their leaders are stuck in what agile leaders call a "waterfall" mindset. They haven’t yet become students of agility, to truly understand what it is, how to evolve an agility operating system top-down and bottom-up, and who they need to be in the equation. Enterprise agility transformation journeys start with the individual.
Distilling the Challenge into the 5 Key Attributes of Agility to Change Your Relationship With
These are the secrets of Everyday Agile Leaders in the real world, facing agility challenges everyday, often with life and death consequences. They have changed their relationship with these 5 key attributes of agility. In the real world, these attributes are the core focus of training and leading edge research. In the business world, when assessing the leadership challenges of agility, progressive diagnosis invariably leads to these same root causes, which can keep leaders stuck in the FRAGILE Majority unable to join the AGILE Minority. Why? Because business leaders have typically never received any training in these attributes of the agility challenge.
Inviting the 5 New Roles of Everyday Agile Leaders to step up to as the Chief Agility Officer of our role in the Business
From the CEO top-down and every individual bottom-up,
I help your team step up to 5 new roles,
- Chief Chaos Coach
- Chief Triage Facilitator
- Chief Insight Trainer
- Chief Luck Consultant
- Chief Journey Architect
Read More: The 5 New Roles
Wheel$pin: the agile executive's manifesto
Published in 2011, My First Book Asked the Question:
"Why, despite all of our investments in our businesses (you name it, we do it), do we still experience a lot more Wheel$pin than we should?"
- Note the $ sign in Wheel$pin. It can cost you a $fortune. A lack of traction on your desired trajectory of profitability & growth … or with your career … or with your balance of work and life.
The Answer:
Agility, or rather a lack of Agility. Or rather, a lack of understanding of the whole challenge, the whole problem and the whole solution of Agility, which is a complex operating system that most people over simplify.
- The 13 Component Parts of an Agility Operating System (AOS), integrated, aligned and attuned for agility as a vehicle fit for the journey challenge.
The 5 roles of everyday agile leaders
Cracking the Agility Code for CEOs, Executives & Managers of Small to Medium Sized Enterprises
A Work in Progress, My Second Book Asks the Question:
“Why, despite all of the Agile inspiration and insights we are now surrounded by, does Enterprise Agility remain as elusive as it has ever been for most leaders?"
The Answer:
The Agility Code, or rather the unbroken Agility Code. Or rather, a lack of understanding of the keys to unlock Agility beliefs, behaviors and results, enterprise wide and enterprise deep, and the reasons why only a minority can and the majority can’t.
- The 5 Key Attributes of Agility to change your relationship with
- The 5 New Roles of Everyday Agile Leaders from the CEO top-down and from every individual bottom-up
- Agile C2C: Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow as the bottom line journey-orientation of your business driving the journey and trajectory of your valuation and share-price. How Agile is Your Share Price?
sustaining Traction, Avoiding wheel$pin
On Your Desired Trajectory of Profitability & Growth
with the Agility Required these days
in an Accelerating World of VUCA
(Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguity)
It's about getting more organized. Are You Over-Whelmed or Under-Organized?