Larry Cooper on Putting Value First & Cultural Agility

Published: July 31, 2017, midnight

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Larry Cooper about the Agility Series \u2013 a collection of books and other resources which explore what agility means in many different dimensions.\n\nWhy reading to this podcast:\n\n - Value management is about doing the right thing, rather than doing lots of stuff, right\n - The reason for doing something should always trace back to an organisational strategic goal, and if it doesn\u2019t then we\u2019re wasting the organisation\u2019s money\n - Introducing the ideas of cultural agility - the ability to understand multiple local contexts and work within them to obtain business results\n - A strategic intent is not a statement of fact, it is a current direction which can changeSustainability and resilience are enhanced through agility\n - Everything changes \u2013 the practices we are using now won\u2019t be the ones we will use in the future, be adaptive to changing everything about how we do work\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2udfFPw\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nWant to see extented shownotes? Check the landing page on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2udfFPw