Quotes About Flexibility

Leaders who want to create adaptive, self-organizing teams steer rather than control—they influence, nudge, facilitate, teach, recommend, assist, urge, counsel, and, yes, direct in some instances.

In my early years of iterative development, I thought timeboxes were actually about time. What I came to realize is that timeboxes are actually about forcing tough decisions.

A team can employ agile practices, but it won't achieve the potential benefit of agile development without embracing agile values and principles.

Newtonian versus quantum, predictability versus flexibility, optimization versus adaptation, efficiency versus innovation—all these dichotomies reflect a fundamentally different way of making sense about the world and how to manage effectively within it.

The formula for success is simple: deliver today, adapt tomorrow.

Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability

Agility is more attitude than process, more environment than methodology.

Adaptation can be considered a mindful response to change.

Self-organizing teams form the core of APM. They blend freedom and responsibility, flexibility and structure. In the face of inconsistency and ambiguity, the teams strive to consistently deliver on the product vision within the project constraints. Accomplishing this requires teams with a self-organizing structure and self-disciplined individual team members. Building this kind of team is the core of an agile project leader's job.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

The primary markers of physical capacity are strength, endurance, flexibility and resilience.

Emotional flexibility reflects the capacity to move freely and appropriately along a wide spectrum of emotions rather than responding rigidly or defensively. Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from experiences of disappointment, frustration and even loss.

The objective of the scenario approach is not to decide which scenario is right…. There is no 'right' answer.

3. Suggestibility

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

The secret to a happy life is to accept change gracefully.

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.