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Leading With Agility

In: RESET Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future

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  • PHILIPP KRISTIAN DIEKHÖNER

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Agility and agile transformation have likely overtaken innovation as the most abused and least practised buzzword in business today. Why agility is misunderstood and mangled is a bit of a mystery. For starters, many people still believe agility is a method. Agility is an actionable way of referring to strategy and culture rooted in the Agile Manifesto. In only 68 words, it delineates the principles for effective software development. These principles have since become general guidelines for a new way of work. The ideas contained in it are absolutely valid beyond the field of software. But like many things that have been excessively glorified, the hype typically distracts attention away from the original idea, in pursuit of commercialising it in the most rigorous manner…

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  • Philipp Kristian Diekhöner, 2021. "Leading With Agility," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: RESET Rethinking Our World and Creating a Different Future, chapter 16, pages 203-213, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811227554_0016
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Future of Work; Future; Futurism; Trends; Transformation; Corporate Innovation; Digital Transformation; Trust Economy; Sharing Economy; Deep Technology; Future Economy; Startups; Digital Trust; Digital Economy; Digitisation;
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    JEL classification:

    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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