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Oh, Maurice!

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Oh, Maurice!

I saw the following post on LinkedIn from my colleague Maurice “Mo” Hagar

"Fostering a new mind-set and creating a new culture is no easy feat."

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Creating-an-agile-mind-set-at-PepsiCo?gko=20fae

Good read. I've done Agile coaching since 2005. Back then it was easy: stand up a Scrum team. Today we're doing business agility, at scale, across the enterprise, and that's not so easy. Because it's no longer about "Agile" and local optimization but about the "business"--mindset / culture and outcomes--as it should be.

There are two kinds of Agilists in the world: 1) those who talk mostly about Agile, and 2) those who talk mostly about the business. Don't mishear me; I'm all for all that "Agile" means. But the most important thing I've learned at IBM, my primary client for the past two years? "Show me results or I'll show you the door."

That sounds harsh but it's how the game of business is played—all professional sports, in fact. And many of us Agilists need to up our game. While we're talking Agile, all the execs hear is "blah blah blah." Because they speak one and only one language: $$$. If you can't go there go home.

You can view it and the replies here - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mauricehagar_creating-an-agile-mind-set-at-pepsico-activity-6603998919653421056-1Clb

I have just a couple of responses to Maurice’s comment…

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