Erich R. Bühler - Enterprise agility from the management perspective

Have you ever heard that managers need tools to increase agility, not just in the IT department, but across the entire company?

There’s a need to support people who hold different values and mind-sets, all of whom need to feel comfortable in the face of accelerated change.

Human beings are not physiologically prepared for constant alterations in processes, roles, and ways of working. Our minds (amygdala) are wired to treat change as danger, a threat and therefore our first instinct is to fight or flight out of fear.

Unfortunately, if members of a company cannot accept new situations and realities (mental agility), along with acceptable levels of personal stress, they will struggle to adapt to new situations (outcomes agility).

How do you help people from all areas of the company to be flexible enough to feel comfortable with constant change? How do you lower their resistance to new situations and enable them to be open to new ideas, with positive and proactive attitudes toward learning?