Playbook for Thriving Post-Pandemic: The Criticality of Agility and Resiliency in 2021 and Beyond

Issue 13, July 29, 2021

Agility-Resilience: The Post-Pandemic Model

There is a new organizational model in town: the agility-resilience construct. Agility is active, resilience is reactive. And when you combine them, you’ve got an organizational performance that is highly competitive. How do you do that? It requires quick decision-making and critical thinking. It also requires a culture that can adapt to change in a nurturing way, accept bad news, and reinforce cross-functional collaboration and feedback.

Resilience + Agility

Agile is a process used by the tech world of continuous iteration in solution development as opposed to a waterfall, streamed approach. Agile has been morphed into agility in the non-tech business culture, which is basically the ability to pivot and change in response to new opportunities and challenges. Not to overly complicate the matter, agility encompasses agile!

Agility makes most organizations better able to compete in today’s disruptive, fragmented, always chan…