Significance

Empirical evidence corroborates the criticality of leadership in enhancing agility. Company philosophy or culture being at odds with core Agile values, lack of managerial support, and general resistance to change in an organization are three of the top four challenges faced by enterprises in adopting and scaling Agile, according to a global survey released in 2017. [i]

Leaders are recognizing the growing complexity in the business environment and also admitting that they are struggling to deal with it. This goes back as far as 2010, when IBM interviewed 1500 CEOs and published the findings in a detailed report. [ii]

The report states:

"Our interviews revealed that CEOs are now confronted with a "complexity gap" that poses a bigger challenge than any factor we've measured in eight years of CEO research. Eight in ten CEOs expect their environment to grow significantly more complex, and fewer than half believe they know how to deal with it successfully."

This recognition and realization...