Behaviors aligned to agility

Before delving into interventions for changing behaviors, it is important to examine patterns of behavior which align with agility and therefore help in enhancing it.

Treat failure as a learning opportunity

Despite best intentions and efforts, delivered outcomes may fail to meet expectations or even turn out to be adverse. There can be varied reasons for this, including making incorrect assumptions, a change in circumstances leading to assumptions being invalidated, human errors, and unanticipated circumstances.

Knowledge work, that is, work which is creative and not mechanical or repetitive, particularly work done with the objective of being innovative, is experimental in nature, and by definition is liable for failure. People and teams are consciously cognizant of this fact, and hence treat failure as an experience to be learned from rather than treating it as an event that is to be forgotten after blaming someone as the cause of it. The individual will retrospect...