Chapter 1

Perspectives Through Personal Agility

In our minds, a project or an organization is all about the complexities in today’s fast-paced, competitive, and dynamic environment. It does not matter what kind of projects or organizations we plunge into. It could be any industry: small, medium, large, or mega. Besides there being a lot of ambiguity, we need to deal with human behaviors. The biggest impact is on leadership skills that are talked about in the Project Management Institute article, Navigating Complexity.2 From our perspective, personal agility with its seven flavors can positively influence the ability to manage complexities and this can be considered as an ultimate goal to deliver the expected projects’ or organizations’ outcomes. ...

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