Continuing from an earlier post:

Dilip Mukerjea continues to write in his latest book, Learning How to Learn (still in the works; not yet released; this is just a sneak peek!):

In what I term ‘adaptagility’, we need to be adaptive and agile in the VUCA world. 

Curiosity, risk-taking, and reflection are central to Learning Agility. 

People who are highly learning agile have a sense of wonder, a readiness to seek out the unfamiliar, and an ability to unpack this new knowledge in actionable ways. 

In today’s everevolving, ever-challenging business landscape, these qualities are in great demand, seen increasingly as critical to a company’s success, and an individual’s prospects in life. 

In view of the dire shortage of individuals and institutions addressing this issue, I offer the AGILE concept as an option that can be activated in countries across the world, where AGILE represents 

Academy of Governance, Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship. 

The AGILE Mandate: To get people to see themselves as better than they are; to transport them into the future to spot opportunities, and triumph against adversity, to become torchbearers of excellence. 

AGILE aims to leverage its consciousness of virtues and values, by inspiring its membership to heal the body, feed the spirit, and illumine the intellect, in all walks of life. Its purpose is directed at every level of society, to inspire the creation of ‘leading learners’ and ‘learning leaders’. 

THE CONCEPT OF ‘ADAPTAGILITY’ WITHIN THE AGILE FRAMEWORK 

Tapping into deep processes, harnessing the forces of attraction, influence, and serendipity, and harvesting the fruits garnered from applied imagination. 

Learning to dance to the rhythms of sfumato = openness to uncertainty and ambiguity, willingness to embrace the unknown, and yet maintain perspective. 

‘ADAPTAGILITY’ is the confluence of being adaptive and agile in a quest to catalyse human INTELLIGENCE = sensing, thinking, feeling, responding ~ in an ambience of space, time, energy, and information...through continual creative expression and improvisation. 

With purposeful engagement in the domains of governance, business, education, and social causes, we have to meet and defeat the whirlwinds of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. 

Competitive intensity is escalating. There is a premium on speed, flexibility, and innovation. Thus, there is a call for the ‘spirit of enterprise’ to awaken at all levels of society. 

The activities within the AGILE Framework are designed to impart a range of skills for immediate application: to reduce complexity, accelerate learning, extract clarity from clutter, convert extensive information into intensive insights, and recognise design beneath disorder...all directed at applications that engender peak-value Returns on Imagination (ROI). 

AGILE embodies the ideals of Samurai Service, which enables us to become able, and helps us to help others in soulconscious ways. 

Following such precepts, we engender and inspire Soul-Smart Leadership. 

This means that real power, as true as an electric current... the power of the inner reality, the engine of the highest ideals of being human, gives wings to our dreams, rides the waves of creativity, and illumines the darkness of ignorance, all of which is AdaptAgility in Action!