Does effective CEOs need to be more agile?

I was reading this interesting post on ‘The Practice of Leadership’ blog: it talks about why CEOs are usually fired.

1. Mismanaging change (31%)
2. Ignoring customers (28%)
3. Tolerating low performers (27%)
4. Denying reality (23%)
5. Too much talk, not enough action (22%)

Two interesting aspects, in my opinion.

One is that no one of these words are used: budget, revenue, money, sales, results …

Second is that agile values + principles have their focus MAINLY on solving those problems:

1. Mismanaging change ->
2. Ignoring customers -> customer collaboration (over contract negotiation)
3. Tolerating low performers -> continuous attention to technical excellence
4. Denying reality -> responding to change (over following a plan)
5. Too much talk, not enough action -> Working software (over comprehensive documentation)

Amazing ….

PierG