Browse 114 quotes about Agility.
“Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.”
Source: Scaramouche
“If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“People are what make companies agile, not approaches, methodologies or tools.”
“Only those with tenacity can march forward in March”
“Physically agile, this squishy strategist and tentacled tactician uses its intelligence and agency to intuit situations, anticipate outcomes, invent solutions, and improvise, remaining relevant for nearly 300 million years.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Agility, resilience, readiness, observation, learning, courage, vigilance, curiosity, and team spirit - these are the most critical traits needed to fight the change tornado called evolution.”
Source: Quantraz
“Two people can get the same result while one has all the time in the world and the other doesn’t.”
“If you think of life as a game of dodgeball, Agility is about learning to stay light on your feet and think about what you want to do with all those balls flying at you. In the short term, it can feel easier to duck and avoid them or be more satisfying to throw a ball back even harder, but sometimes the right choice is to call for a time out.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“A stroke. Robert has never been kind to his body . . . It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown. And Robert has cared for that mind like a tiger with her young: he has given up drinking and drugs, kept a strict schedule of sleep. He is good, he is careful. And to steal that--to steal his mind--burglar Life!Like cutting a Rembrandt from its frame.”
Source: Less
“This need for humans to enhance their capabilities to become AAA is relevant in the context of machines learning faster, with increasingly higher-level human functions.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Shaping the company's future requires a board that fosters a culture of innovation and agility to adapt to changing market conditions.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Agility is less about following agile processes and
more about having a mindset of adaptability.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“Fast-changing environments drive new opportunities and gaps. Agility means finding those gaps and exploring them.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“In an era of predictable unpredictability, agility allows us to emerge in the here and now, while at the same time bridging our longer-term strategy with the present.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“In a VUCA world, if you’re not consciously confused, you’re ignorant. If you’re not preparing, you’re negligent.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The Red Queen Race necessitates being fast and astute. Speed alone is insufficient.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Be agile in decision-making - there may be no right answers.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“In today's interconnected and rapidly changing world, boards of directors must prioritize ensuring their companies possess agility in response to global phenomena.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“In the age of AI, we explore the agility needed for humans to stay relevant in the decision-making process.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Benji barely leaves any footprints in the snow as he moves between the trees. That always used to surprise people who encountered him on the ice, the combination of agility and strength. Adri always says it's incredible that someone so agile can be so bad at dancing, and he always replies that it's incredible that someone can be so bad at cooking as she is yet still be so fat.”
Source: The Winners
“He was not sprightly enough to have sprightly friends.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“The GAP, or divide, between... Knowing and Doing, is only crossed by people who can effectively, and positively, manage their emotional state, and their inner RESPONSES to the outside world.”
“Most people's BIG PICTURE focus, is still way too small to understand reality, make intelligent decisions, and take SWIFT Actions, that ENSURE long-term Success.”
“Agility is about handling the curveballs life pitches at us. It’s being able to respond quickly when you’re caught off guard. When you engage your core to Pause and Think, you can Act by responding thoughtfully when you’re blindsided, instead of reacting instinctually.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“Agility asks us to override our knee-jerk tendency to fire back, to get angry, and to defend ourselves. When you work your core in Agility, you Pause, Think about what you want or need in the situation, and try to identify a more thoughtful and intentional course of Action. With practice, you can have the knee-jerk reactions without the jerk!”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“When we think about physical fitness, agility centers on your ability to move quickly and easily. To make adjustments to what’s happening around you. To help you stay on your feet when you get thrown off balance.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“Agility is about overriding defaults. For me, a good way to accomplish that is to remember what happened the last time I went on autopilot. Ask yourself: What was the outcome? Is that something I want to repeat?
If the results weren’t good in the past, don’t use the same recipe! Try something different. If you tend to get frustrated and other people get defensive, see if you can be kinder. If you’re a yeller, see if you can deliver the same message with a calm demeanor and a more compassionate “inside” voice.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“Organisational, or Team, Culture is a foundation, and primary factor for enabling greater people performance and exponential results.
To fully enable, and unleash, people potentials, consciously constructive leaders cultivate the heads, hearts, minds, and Souls. in their organisation”
“Agilityn suurin haaste on siinä, mitä tapahtuu esteiden välillä, ei niinkään esteillä.”
Source: Agilityradat, osa 2
“Faithful leadership isn’t about sticking to your plans when you should abandon them. Instead, it’s about being willing to question them and be questioned in pursuit of them, then course correct where necessary.”
Source: It Is Not Your Business to Succeed: Your Role in Leadership When You Can't Control Your Outcomes
“To own nothing is to be owned by nothing.”
Source: Collaborate: The Art of We
“Learning agility means to learn, de-learn, and relearn all the times.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end,” a philosophy and mindset at board level.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“The agile way is more adapt to changes but shall not lose the sight of big picture.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice “de-learning” and “relearning” all the time.”
Source: Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
“The Future of work is all about CREAM. More Consciousness, Relationships, Empathy, AdaptAgility, and Meaning. We must be building a more human-centered context for stakeholders, as opposed to JUST MORE profits for shareholders".”
“A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind must not be and when the mind is in crises, the body must not be. Such is tenacity and nimbleness”
Source: The Untapped Wonderer In You: dare to do the undone
“Agility within and of itself is a strategy.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!”
“The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“Consciously Constructive Human Capital Development, Perpetual Reinvention: innovation & Creativity, Adaptability, Resilience and Agility, are not only CORE DRIVERS, but also the DEFINING features of economic success in the 4IR.”
“Worse yet is the rejection of upfront requirements. The basic observation is correct: requirements will change, and are hard anyway to capture at the beginning. In no way, however, does it imply the dramatic conclusion that upfront requirements are useless! What it does imply is that requirements should be subject to change, like all other artifacts on the software process.
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The agile advice here is irresponsible and serious software projects should ignore it.The sound practice is to start collecting requirements at the beginning, produce a provisional version prior to engaging in design, and treat the requirements as a living product that undergoes constant adaptation throughout the project.”
“Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile is not prescriptive and which techniques are appropriate will depend on the context.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Doing Agile is just a first step; being agile needs to have a totally different mindset, and multidimensional perspectives.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile