Organizational Agility: Values, Principles and Traits

by Lawrence (Larry) Cooper

The Agility Series consists of eBooks, blog posts, and webinars. The Agility Series covers nine areas of • Organizational Agility (this book) • Strategic Agility • Leadership Agility • Value Agility • Delivery Agility • Business Agility • Cultural Agility • Client/Customer Agility • Learning Agility Why start with Organizational Agility? Organizational Agility is a reflection of the other eight types of agility. However, what is also true is that how we define our organization through our mission, vision, values, and principles statements also determine the type of organization that we end up creating. Kind of the chicken and egg problem. While mission and vision are specific to each organization, values and principles can sometimes be more universal. For example, the values and principles statements of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development are not specific to any single organization. This can also be true of the values and principles of an agile organization as there are some statements that have a universal applicability to them. We hope to have captured the universal values and principles of an Agile Organization in this book. As the entire book series about agility, it stands to reason that we intend to iterate the books as we receive feedback and suggestions from our contributors, readers, and clients. While we’d like our first iteration of each to be the only one we’ll ever need, we know that is not realistic. This incremental principle applies to the different types of agility. For example, Learning Agility was added to series based on feedback from one of our council members. Before we are done with the above list there may be others added as well. You can think of this as merely the beginning of a set of conversations on the different types of agility. As our conversations attract more voices we fully expect the richness of our understanding to grow by refining and adding to what we are creating through The Agility Series.

80 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 9, 2018