Organizations face challenges today that are too messy and complicated for consultants to simply play doctor: run a few tests, offer a neat diagnosis of the “problem,” and recommend a solution. Edgar Schein argues that consultants have to jettison the old idea of professional distance and work with their clients in a more personal way, emphasizing authentic openness, curiosity, and humility.
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What is Agile? The oft misinterpreted manifesto!
‘Agile’ is not a practice. It is a quality of the organization and its people to be adaptive, responsive, continually learning and evolving—to be agile, with the goal of competitive business success and rapid delivery of economically valuable products and knowledge. One cannot do agile, although it is a common misconception that one can. Such miscommunicationContinue reading “What is Agile? The oft misinterpreted manifesto!”
thriving in complexity 