In every boardroom today, agility is the leadership buzzword. Move faster. Pivot sooner. Outpace the market.
But agility is often equated with speed, and speed alone is not enough. In Peter Drucker’s words, it risks becoming “doing efficiently what should not be done at all.”
Today’s leaders need five distinct agilities that align speed with insight, creativity, vision, and meaning: Analytical (seeing differently), Operational (reconfiguring rapidly), Inventive (creating under constraint), Communicative (shaping narratives), and Visionary (anticipating futures). Without them, agility becomes mere motion — impressive in pace, aimless in direction; “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” […]
