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Because there are no fixed ways of structuring a company (or operating one), we can learn from all the forms that have been tried and been successful—along with those that failed, too.
With organizational agility becoming ever more important, the ability to apply agile principles to higher levels of the organization is becoming more critical than ever.
You have a role in the organization’s effort to be more agile. Don’t think it will be a thankless effort, though. If you play your cards right, you can attain documentable evidence of your leadership and improve your career advancement.
Some aspects of increasing organizational agility are the responsibility of senior management. But if they are asleep at the switch, agility will not improve much. Here are some practical ways to contribute to organizational agility as a project manager.
The success or failure of an organizational agility environment can come down to the decisions of one or two project teams. Unless those teams have the confidence to act decisively, the entire organization will suffer.
The fast spin of technology demands that we have a dynamic workforce we hire with the notion that we want to keep talented members on board indefinitely—much of which can be accomplished with a vision of constantly developing and enhancing their abilities.
Organizational change is first mental, then we can change strategy and start doing things differently. So, business transformation is about changing minds and then actions. Yet, what do we really know about changing minds?
You can’t decide to implement organizational agility on a piecemeal basis one project at a time. Instead, you must create an environment where project managers and their teams are empowered, skilled and confident to deliver success in a continuously evolving world. How do you do that?
As organizations grow older, agility tends to wane. They become more set in their ways. Breakthrough thinking gives way to embracing routine endeavors. Reaction times slow. Maintaining the status quo becomes common. It doesn’t have to be that way.
There’s a lot of talk currently about the importance of organizational agility. But what does that really mean in the real world?
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