CXO, YOU GOT THIS.

IGNORING THIS NEW RESEARCH COULD SIGNIFICANTLY LIMIT THE ROI/ROE BENEFITS YOU WILL GET FROM YOUR AGILE PROGRAMS

“We were trained and ‘beaten’ with content training on agile, until we all said ‘OK we get it now’…but we didn’t really get it.” (continued below)

Unlike the person quoted above, many of us aren’t aware that we’re not getting it. Like the person quoted above, however, many of us keep our head down and we “go along to get along”…despite the confusion and organizational contradictions. New insights on how to lead agile transformations more effectively, are continuously being learned from a combination of communities including a few of my favorites:

• The Agile Uprising Podcast a purpose-built network that focuses on the advancement of the agile mindset
• The most compelling new piece of research on agility: “What Leads to Organizational Agility; It’s Not What You Think” from Elaine D. Pulakos, Tracy Kantrowitz and Benjamin Schneider. (Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Vol 71(4), Dec 2019 305–320 ). This new research is helping illustrate much more clearly, what has been missing from the standard perspectives and approaches to agile transformations. Elaine writes:

“Our results suggest that many of the approaches companies have been implementing to achieve organizational…