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Agile state

KEY LEARNING POINT

Identify the three layers of agility needed to create an agile mindset.

Creating the right state of mind to achieve agility is vital: agile works with change, it sees it as an everyday occurrence and gives us a way of thinking and a structure to map out and manage change by embracing uncertainty through learning and experimentation.

In order to do things well, we must have a good state of mind, good structure and good content. Agile tools and techniques provide a structure and make it possible to sustain a state of agility (see Figure 5.1).

William T. Cairley, business and personal coach (Master Business Practitioner, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)), first introduced me to the three layers of state, structure ...

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