Agility

Conclusion

As discussed in the beginning of this publication, today’s manager would be unrecognizable to Henri Fayol whose managerial functions involved the verbs planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. To assist the agile manager in a volatile world, this publication introduced a new way of thinking and shifted managerial functions from verbs to the nouns: curator, architect, conductor, humanist, advocate, and pioneer. This revision from verb to noun reflects the manager’s need to shift their thinking from a position of status to one of perspective. Commenting on the need for a different perspective Darrell Rigby noted, “every organization must innovate and agile, done well, frees and facilitates vigorous innovation without ...