ADVANCE PRAISE FOR

THE AGE OF AGILE

“At a time when the quest for shareholder value is leading many companies to shortchange their customers, employees, and everyone else, Steve Denning reminds us that it doesn’t have to be this way. Rich with examples of Agile management at work, The Age of Agile envisions an economy that is more innovative, more humane, and more inclusive.”

—LYNN S. PAINE,

John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School, and coauthor of Capitalism at Risk:
Rethinking the Role of Business

“An invaluable guide to transforming the old—unadaptive hierarchical management—into the new—the customer-involved, team-empowered company capable of continuously re-inventing itself.”

—ROBERT M. RANDALL,

Editor-in-Chief, Strategy & Leadership, and editor/author of
The Portable MBA in Strategy

“Steve Denning’s The Age of Agile is a call to arms for why we must improve our innovative performance and a manifesto for making that happen. This manifesto shows how enterprises with essential behaviors, tools, and processes can liberate the genius of staff to create great value for their customers, enterprises, investors, staff, and society.”

—CURTIS R. CARLSON,

CEO, Practice of Innovation, LLC; former CEO of
SRI international (1998–2014)

“In The Age of Agile, Steve Denning—one of our leading management thinkers—demonstrates why and how a passion for products, not profits, is the key to successful business enterprise.”

—WILLIAM LAZONICK,

Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell,
and codirector of its Center for Industrial Competitiveness

“In Silicon Valley, companies that grow big usually start to lose their way. Steve Denning, in The Age of Agile, shows how to avoid the common pitfalls startups make as they scale into larger, more mature companies. It is a blueprint for startups, small businesses, and large publicly traded companies alike.”

—STEPHEN FORTE,

Managing Partner, Fresco Capital

“The Age of Agile should be a key companion to guide business leaders in their quest to address the biggest challenge set out by Peter Drucker for management in the twenty-first century: achieving a step change in the productivity of knowledge work. Without trying to give recipes, the book provides many lively and recent case studies and relevant background perspectives that will help leaders to re-frame the practice of current industrial-age management and to chart their unique way into an increasingly complex and unpredictable future.”

—RICHARD STRAUB,

founder and President of the Global Peter Drucker Forum

“The Age of Agile is a tour de force. As a CEO strategy advisor, this is the most exciting book I have read this year. Finally, someone has laid out the core principles and, with the help of pertinent, easy-to-understand examples, lays out what it takes to apply Agile to any organization. Thank you, Steve Denning!”

—SETH KAHAN,

author of Getting Change Right and Getting Innovation Right