Purpose: The article offers a clear and succinct account of the Amazon approach to Agile management (though it doesn’t call it that, and offers best practices to enable others to learn how to think–and act–like Amazon. Design/methodology/approach: The article draws on the insights and...

Purpose: Practitioners can learn much about how a CEO can generate and sustain business agility from examining the role of Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon—arguably the world’s most-agile large organization. Design/methodology/approach: Amazon demonstrates mastery of strategic agility by...

Purpose: “Agile management” refers to a set of management goals, principles, values and practices that emerged to speed up software. Now its tools and culture are spreading to all kinds of organizations throughout the world—from R&D to top management teams. As some corporations race to...

Purpose: Soon leaders in many top-down managed organization may face the necessity of undertaking a company-wide Agile transformation.First adopted by digital innovation teams, the Agile mindset is spreading to middle management operations and top level leadership initiatives in many...

Purpose: Provides lessons in strategic agility from the presentations of two Drucker Forum thought leaders at the annual conference in Vienna in November. Design/methodology/approach: Summarizes the Drucker Forum conference presentations of Steve Blank, a Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur, and...

Purpose: The author posits that the management model of an organization determines what kind of business models can be pursued within that organization and that successful 21st century management models are very different from those that succeeded in the 20th century....

Purpose: The author offers The Principles, Processes, Practices (PPP) Worksheet, an analytic tool that can help firms diagnose their current status in relation to the transformation from 20th Century to 21st Century management. Design/methodology/approach: The author posits that there are...

Purpose: If leaders really want to change people’s minds and enlist them in existential endeavors, they need an understanding of the dynamics of persuasion and the craft of leadership storytelling. Design/methodology/approach: Stories that do change minds and inspire different behavior tend...

Purpose: The author discusses the challenges of implementing a digital ecosystem, a way of transcending the boundaries of a firm to include additional producers to provide more value to customers and also by making customers active partners. Design/methodology/approach: An ecosystem is...