Staying Agile Beyond a Crisis

HBR IdeaCast

• Episode: Staying Agile Beyond a Crisis
• Website: HBR IdeaCast
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• Duration: 00:25:45
• Published: 2020-05-26 16:00

Darrell Rigby, partner at Bain & Company, says many firms have rapidly adopted agile principles to react to the coronavirus crisis. Namely, they’ve been ditching bureaucratic planning processes and instead fast-tracking ideas, holding focused meetings, and empowering decisions at lower levels of the organization. He argues that C-suite leaders should keep this newfound organizational nimbleness for good and explains how they can. With Sarah Elk and Steve Berez, Rigby wrote the HBR article “The Agile C-Suite” and the new book Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos.