{"id":59100,"date":"2025-07-23T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/ajbofsh\/pain-points-business-agility-katie-taylor\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:27:25","slug":"pain-points-business-agility-katie-taylor","status":"publish","type":"product-content","link":"https:\/\/www.mindtools.com\/ajbofsh\/pain-points-business-agility-katie-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain Points Podcast: Get Agile!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Agile&#8221; used to be something that only dev teams needed to worry about. But these days, agility is a vital attribute for everyone, everywhere.<\/strong><\/p><p>In a fast-moving and volatile world, it&#8217;s more important than ever that we&#8217;re organized, efficient, able to respond quickly and creatively \u2013 and resilient: just some of the modern meanings of &#8220;agile.&#8221; And that goes for managers and team members as much as the organizations they work for.<\/p><p>On this episode of Pain Points, Katie Taylor from the Agile Business Consortium gives us a potted history of agile, and presents a powerful argument for incorporating it in any kind of business. She tells Jonathan how agile cultures are created from the top down, but she also highlights the role of managers in putting agility into action.<\/p><p>And she offers advice for anyone who needs to get more agile from today.<\/p><div class=\"ew-audio\" data-source=\"embed\"><div class=\"ew-audio-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/yIHmsRZV-i6FVyGfQ.html\" title=\"Pain Points Ep83\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Share Your Pain!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>You can contact the team anytime via email: <a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:painpoints@mindtools.com\" href=\"mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:mailto:painpoints@mindtools.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">painpoints@mindtools.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Useful Mindtools Resources<\/h2>\n\n<p><a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"awsimkj\/agile-project-management\" href=\"\/awsimkj\/agile-project-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Project Management<\/a> (Article)<\/p><p><a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"as4nurl\/the-agile-leader\" href=\"\/as4nurl\/the-agile-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Agile Leader<\/a> (Article)<\/p><p><a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"as4nurl\/the-agile-leader\" href=\"\/as4nurl\/the-agile-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Manage in a VUCA World<\/a> (Video)<\/p><p><a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"ajsoed0\/agile-project-management-essentials-video\" href=\"\/ajsoed0\/agile-project-management-essentials-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Project Management Essentials<\/a> (Video)<\/p><p><a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"akqulyu\/what-is-agile-project-management\" href=\"\/akqulyu\/what-is-agile-project-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Is Agile Project Management?<\/a> (Infographic)<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Week&#8217;s Expert Guest<\/h2>\n\n<p><a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.agilebusiness.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agilebusiness.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Agile Business Consortium<\/a> (Katie&#8217;s organization&#8217;s website)<\/p><p><a class=\"ew-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.agilebusiness.org\/resource\/the-nine-principles-of-agile-leadership.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agilebusiness.org\/resource\/the-nine-principles-of-agile-leadership.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 9 Principles of Agile Leadership<\/a> (A key Agile Business Consortium resource)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast, Katie Taylor from the Agile Business Consortium explains what agility means for individuals, teams and organizations. 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