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What is agility and the role of the Agile Coach:

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The complexity of our world, the VUCA world itself, and the amount of low-quality information further complicate the understanding of agility. Just like in the world of professional Agile coaching where there is a lot of intrusion and smoke, our business transformation world is full of bad practices that often lead to failure and a misunderstanding of what agility is. Our intention with these words is just to start giving some brushstrokes to shed a little more light. What is agility? The first thing to clarify is that agility is not a methodology, although the term "agile methodologies" is widely used. Agility is a "mindset", that is, a way of thinking that leads to a different way of working. CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) simplifies human behavior for us: Thoughts lead to feelings and feelings lead to behaviors and consequently to results.  Therefore, we can say that "agility" is the way of working differently in teams or organizations, a con