By Mike Richardson, Team Agility Practice Leader   Innovation, most would agree, is the secret of sustained success. But maintaining innovation for the long haul is hard. Just look at companies like Blackberry and Sony, who used to be among the most innovative companies on the planet and now aren’t.  What caused these companies to fall? […]

By Mike Richardson, Team Agility Practice Leader Leadership and management have always been about change.  But has you leadership changed with change?     In an increasingly VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) world, our leadership challenge has become a real-time unfolding flow of change as a dynamic journey on a shifting landscape in a constant state of flux.  Increasingly […]

Are you embracing Agile yet?  This May 2016 HBR (Harvard Business Review) article Embracing Agile is joining the our chorus urging you to do so.  Indeed, look at the accumulating list of articles about Agile in HBR.  Here are some of the headlines from this latest article: “Agile innovation methods have revolutionized information technology. Over the past 25 to […]

How cool was that?!  I was comparing notes with Alan Mulally (former CEO of Ford) the other afternoon in my Vistage CEO Group (Honorary Vistage Member:  Alan Mulally) and we met at the intersection of “Working Together” and “Agility”.  Not surprisingly!  “Working-Together” is the philosophy and approach Alan took in turning around Ford – a combination of principles […]

No one invested more massively in LEAN than GE. Now they are investing massively to pivot from LEAN to AGILE.  Because AGILE is the new LEAN!  Their sustained share-price performance depends upon it.  See:  The Biggest Agile Startup on Earth: GE Beliefs & FastWorks. I know, I know, you’re thinking, hang-on, its says, “Lean Startup”, […]