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Organizational Agility relies upon an integrated system of crucial components, interfacing and interacting with each other to provide you the agility you need, when you need it.  Often times, we don’t know that we lack agility until it is too late (Making Friends with Organizational Agility).

It’s not because we don’t intuitively know what agility is and what it requires, it’s that something is getting lost in the translation of intuition into practice (Organizational Agility – Lost in Translation?)

And it’s easy to be in denial, believing that our system has more agility than it actually does (Read the Eastern Airlines story in Divergence & Convergence).  Indeed, Jim Collins identifies this, explicitly, as one of the 5 stages of decline of how the mighty fall (What is Jim Collins Saying? ).

So how much can you trust your system, to have the agility you need, when you need it?  It takes a system of crucial components, interfacing and interacting with each other to be tackling the whole problem and the whole solution (In the Driving Seat of Organizational Agility).  Some of these crucial components are conventional and familiar.  Many are unconventional and unfamiliar.  Unconventional times call for unconventional approaches.

I want you being productively paranoid, that maybe you are placing more trust in your system than is warranted.  I want you kicking the tires of your system on an ongoing basis, to be sure, so that you don’t have an Eastern Airlines scenario or a “How the Mighty Fall” scenario in your future. 

When you’ve kicked your tires some, kick them some more!  Don’t fall prey to the, “I think we are fine” trap.  As Andy Grove says, “only the paranoid survive” (read his book preface at:  Only the Paranoid Survive:  Book Preface).

Be productively paranoid.  You have nothing to lose.  Don’t and you have everything to lose.  That’s what our work is about.  Helping you understand the whole problem and whole solution of being In the Driving Seat of Organizational Agility, so that you can readily have a sense of how much trust you can place in yopur system and where you have more work and continuous improvement to do.