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The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done Hardcover – Feb. 8 2018

by Stephen Denning (Author)
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An unstoppable business revolution is under way, and it is Agile. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement has helped companies learn to connect everyone and everything…all the time.

With rapidly evolving consumer needs and technology that is being updated quicker than ever before, businesses are recognizing how essential it is to adapt quickly. The Agile movement enables a team, unit, or enterprise to nimbly acclimate and upgrade products and services to meet these constantly changing needs.

Filled with examples from every sector, The Age of Agile helps you:

  • Master the three laws of Agile Management (team, customer, network)
  • Embrace the new mindset
  • Overcome constraints
  • Employ meaningful metrics
  • Make the entire organization Agile

Companies don’t need to be born Agile. With the groundbreaking formulas laid out in The Age of Agile, even global giants can learn to act entrepreneurially. Your company’s future may depend on it!

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    336 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    AMACOM
  4. Publication date
    Feb. 8 2018
  5. Dimensions
    2.54 x 2.54 x 2.54 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0814439098
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0814439098
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About the Author

STEPHEN DENNING is a renowned management innovator and popular Forbes.com columnist. A former World Bank executive, he serves on the advisory board for the Drucker Forum and is the author of several books including The Leader's Guide to Radical Management.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AMACOM (Feb. 8 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0814439098
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0814439098
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2.54 x 2.54 x 2.54 cm
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Stephen Denning

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Stephen Denning was born in Sydney, Australia. He studied law and psychology at Sydney University. After doing a post-graduate law degree at Oxford University, he joined the World Bank where he worked for several decades in various management capacities, including Program Director of Knowledge Management from 1996-2000.

He is the author of eight books, including The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century, which is being published by Jossey-Bass in October 2010.

His book, The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative, was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best books of 2007.

The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, was named in 2005 by the Innovation Network as one of the twelve most important books on innovation in the past several years.

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership Through Storytelling was published in 2004. He has also published Storytelling in Organizations (2004) and The Springboard (2000) as well as a novel and a volume of poetry.

Denning consults with organizations in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia on topics of leadership, management, innovation and business narrative.

In 2000, he was named as one of the world’s most admired knowledge leaders (by Teleos) and in 2003, he was ranked as one of the world’s top two hundred business gurus by Tom Davenport and Larry Prusak in their book, What’s the Big Idea?

In 2009, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University.

Denning’s Web site (http://www.stevedenning.com) has an extensive collection of materials on radical management, leadership, innovation, knowledge management and business narrative.

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Athan
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 31, 2018
One of the most innovative books i read this year. The author writes with authority and simplicity. Thank you
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Nancy Steinhausen
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful for me as an Agile beginner
Reviewed in Canada on July 4, 2018
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I ordered this book to learn more about Agile implementation. It helped me with that. I did not find the second half of the book--why companies don't implement Agile or have difficulty with it--as useful since it wasn't what I needed. I did learn some interesting perspectives. I am an Agile beginner and enjoyed the book.
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aquaman
1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Book Ever, unreadable, even the binding was shoddy
Reviewed in Canada on October 11, 2018
Terrible, long rambling incoherent,badly written , unreadable. It's a sales pitch from the author the buy into his MLM scheme.

The author is a drunk, failed socialist, bitter misogynistic loathsome toad. Even the cheap binding on the book fell apart and it smelled like mothballs and a layer of grime on one side.
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Jorge P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro para formar una mentalidad agile
Reviewed in Mexico on February 7, 2021
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Excelente libro! Para armar una visión y mentalidad agile. Lo recomiendo ampliamente.
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Kirtan
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Kevin Spigel
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Llegó súper rápido. Tal cual como en la publicación.
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Nei Grando
5.0 out of 5 stars We are living in an era that requires agile organizations
Reviewed in Brazil on August 8, 2019
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Embracing agile is needed with great Small Teams, Customer focus, and teams of teams working in a Network of professionals.
According to Stephen Denning, "The new paradigm enables organizations to thrive in a world of rapid and unpredictable change. It enables a team, a unit, or an entire enterprise to nimble adapt and upgrade products and services to meet rapdly changing technology and customer needs with efficency gains, quality improvments, or even completely new products and services. It permits an organization to flourish in a marketplace that is incresingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous - the so called VUCA word."
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Suzanne Daigle
5.0 out of 5 stars Business listen up! The Age of Agile is NOW! Exceptional Book for these times!
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2018
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The gift and greatness in this book is its breadth and scope. Compelling, irrefutable and too important to ignore.
Steve Denning says: “If there were a Nobel Prize for management, which there isn’t, and if there were any justice in the world, which there isn’t, the creators of Agile would be Nobel laureates.”
The experiment that has been Agile for nearly twenty years, bravely and resolutely pursued by the Technology community has much to offer to traditional management and mainstream organizations.
The Age of Agile is an incredible field guide to help us navigate a customer-centric VUCA world of rapid and complex change. It provides history, business and economic context, practical applications, short and longer term case studies and most important of all, insights around mindset which are at the heart of Agile and the Agile Manifesto.
Denning has done a Herculean job in capturing the true depth and essence of Agile. Fortunate are those who will take this on to transform their organizations. The future belongs to those who will have the wisdom to partner with their technology colleagues, listening, learning and sharing with each other to shift from a world of predictability and control to one where innovation and responsiveness become the way we do work every day, in every way across the enterprise.
The silver lining is that these companies will experience unprecedented levels of high performance and engagement because peer accountability, purpose and pride will have eclipsed the shallow rewards of an outdated hierarchical bureaucracy.
Not to say that it will be easy but certainly it is a journey whose time has come and it can’t happen fast enough!
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