While I agree 100% with the spirit of this article, I want to riff off of it from an agile transformation leadership perspective…
It’s simply not good enough for a CEO of a company that aspires to agile ways of working (transformation, business agility, flow, employee engagement, etc.) and not take a strong ownership stake in it themselves.
To simply hire someone to make things be agile without being in the game themselves. Not as a:
Sponsor
Supporter
Proponent
Advocate
Stakeholder
Funder
Cheerleader
Isn’t good enough. Not for something as powerful, as challenging, as impactful, with as much potential as changing their culture and the way they do work.