The Entrepreneur Agile Life

Agile is the ability to create and respond to change. It is a way of dealing with, and ultimately succeeding in, an uncertain and turbulent environment.

Personally, I believe adapting an Agile mindset is critical for a happier life and success for your chosen vocation.

I’m by no means a seasoned entrepreneur but my experience as an Agile IT Consultant, working with a number of Development Teams has allowed me to understand that my natural optimistic nature is in fact very much an Agile mindset. For as long as I can remember, I have always had a natural ability to see opportunity in every disappointment.

As an entrepreneur, being Agile is about being open minded and being flexible to change. It’s about thinking through how you can better understand what’s going on in the environment you’re in today, identify what uncertainty you’re facing, and figure out how you can adapt to these changes as you go along.

Being Agile teaches you to be resilient, logical, practical, strategic and robust. In principle, it may sound straight forward and easy to implement but from my experience working with a number of high performing teams. The practical aspect for actually being Agile is quite difficult as it requires internal strength and focus.

To have an Agile mindset requires having a growth mindset. The ability to see challenging situations as an opportunity to improve, learn and grow as opposed to a Fixed Mindset illustrated below.

For further reading on mindset I recommend Mindset — Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential