As the world continues to become increasingly interconnected and interdependent, Black Swans --- large-scale unpredictable and irregular events of massive consequence --- are necessarily becoming more prominent!

While agility involves responding to change, antifragility involves gaining from disorder; and while agility emphasizes embracing change through inspecting and adapting, antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos or randomness through adapting and evolving!

While management focuses on complexity, leadership focuses on change! And while change management focuses on techniques for managing change, change leadership focuses on the capacity to lead change! With the proliferation of various models for “general leadership,” “change management,” and “change leadership” that focus on language or communication, relationships, and behaviors, no particular model has emerged as the preeminent “leadership model”!

As a result of the proliferation of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, non-predictive decision making and change leadership are quintessential --- and individuals, teams & groups, and organizations & enterprises are embracing the quest for greater antifragility and require “antifragile change leadership” to realize greater employee engagement and market innovation & disruption!

We’ll explore Antifragility and Agility, Leadership and Management, and Change while sharing an empirically-derived agility and antifragility change leadership model that you can immediately put into practice with Scrum.

As the world continues to become increasingly interconnected and interdependent, Black Swans --- large-scale unpredictable and irregular events of massive consequence --- are necessarily becoming more prominent!

While agility involves responding to change, antifragility involves gaining from disorder; and while agility emphasizes embracing change through inspecting and adapting, antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos or randomness through adapting and evolving!

As a result of the proliferation of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, non-predictive decision making is quintessential --- and individuals, teams & groups, and organizations & enterprises are embracing the quest for greater antifragility to realize greater employee engagement and market innovation & disruption!

We'll explore volatility/disorder and shock/stress and distinguish between Fragile, Antiagile, Robust, Agile, and Antifragile as well as Resilience; and then we’ll explore how to operationalize Antifragility in practice --- beyond Scrum!

If you’ve embraced any degree of agility or scrum, don’t miss this opportunity to go beyond agility and Scrum and explore antifragility in practice!

Agility involves responding to change while Antifragility involves gaining from disorder! Agility emphasizes embracing change while inspecting and adapting. Antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos while adapting and evolving.

In a chaotic world where we can only “expect the unexpected,” tranquility is the root of fragility! Antifragility, coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, is fueling DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and much more!

As a value system (mindset), Agility emphasizes people, results, collaboration, and responsiveness where self-organizing cross-functional teams form agile organizations, and where various frameworks and practices/techniques operationalize agility.

However, Antifragility emphasizes evolution and gaining from disorder where individuals and collectives form antifragile enterprises, and where various dynamics operationalize antifragility.

Using stories of various client expereinces, we’ll introduce and demystify Antifragility, and explores how individuals, teams, and organizations have already and can immediately put it into practice.