Business agility, it's all in the mind

Agility is one of the great buzzwords of the day so I paused for thought when I saw this tweet from @flowchainsensei (aka Bob Marshall)  ”What is *Business Agility*? It’s ability to respond to changes in your business environment: markets, competitors, regulators, tech, etc.”

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Well that doesn’t sound like agility to me. Bob’s [...]

Strategy is an abstract art

How good are you at managing strategy? If you are not sure, here’s a very simple test – get a jigsaw puzzle and empty the pieces onto your desk, face down. Now, throw away the puzzle box, ask three friendly colleagues to remove an unspecified number of pieces each, at random, and to put [...]