Joy of Agility, Joshua Kerievsky
Joy of Agility, Joshua Kerievsky
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Joy of Agility
How to Solve Problems and Succeed Sooner

Author: Joshua Kerievsky

Narrator: Joshua Kerievsky

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/28/2023


Synopsis

Agility enables you, your team, and your organization to streamline slow and awkward actions, overcome obstacles quickly, and adapt to change with ease and grace.

Agility isn't a formula, a framework, nor a set of roles and rituals to follow. It's a timeless way of being that matures with practice and skill. Becoming agile involves knowing the difference between being quick or hurrying, moving with ease or difficulty, being in or out of balance, graceful or awkward, adaptable or rigid, resourceful or resentful. With Joy of Agility, Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic, one of the oldest and most-respected agile consultancies in the world, shows you how to harness agility in work and life to solve problems and succeed sooner.

Kerievsky shares six essential agile mantras, plus unforgettable, real-world stories of agile people and teams, that will empower you to be quick, adaptable, and resourceful in the face of challenges and opportunities. Learn how to: distinguish between being quick and hurrying; gain better balance and collaborate gracefully with others; prepare and practice being poised to adapt; take deliberate steps to drive out fear; grow a solution by starting minimal and evolving; and overcome obstacles by being readily resourceful.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt on July 27, 2022

Josh achieves what he sets out to do: Create an easy-to-read compendium of examples of agility that are memorable and retellable. It's a handbook to keep around for anyone who needs anecdotes at hand to quickly illustrate agility for people at all levels of organizations.......more

Goodreads review by Chris on February 15, 2023

What a joy this book truly was. This book is all about the behaviors, thinking, values and principles we care about when we talk about agile but told in through stories that carry the essence of agility through them in many walks of life. I love the 6 mantras that Josh describes, they really hone in......more

Goodreads review by Gary Cohen on August 21, 2023

This is a different type of agile book, free of process prescriptions and full of little stories that illustrate actual examples of being agile. If you like to learn from lots of little stories, this is the perfect book for you. The author ties groups of stories together into "mantras" like "Be Quic......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on September 08, 2023

I listened to this audiobook on the O'Reilly website for free. I loved Joshua's approach to agility. This book is full of stories on change and how to deal with it. One of of my favorites stories is the one with face change. You can take away so many things but you can also add to it. Joshua is a co......more

Goodreads review by Darya on March 18, 2023

Agile is the concept that can be well applied in project management as well as in personal life. This is what this book is about. We learn every day from our own actions and experiences and from those from people around us. Being agile is being flexible with decisions, acting based on what is happen......more