Embracing Agility and Six Mantras for Being Agile

The speaker reflects on the growing emphasis on agility and expresses skepticism about its implementation. They mention their new book, 'The Joy of Agility', and note that it includes short stories showcasing agility in various cases, such as Oprah and American Airlines. The book also features six mantras about agility, which the speaker admits were not pre-planned, but emerged during the writing process. These mantras were inspired by the speaker's favorite stories of agility and were not initially organized. The mantras were influenced by the Modern Agile principles and ideas from gurus like W. Edwards Deming, with one mantra, 'drive out fear', closely aligned with the principle of 'make safety a prerequisite'.