Applied Enterprise Agility: A Field Guide for Executive Leaders

Bys: Barnes, Joshua and Hibbs, Curtis

Strategy dies in the gap between the boardroom and the team room.

You approved the transformation. You funded the initiatives. You hired the coaches. The results never arrived.

The gaps are upstream. Unclear outcomes. Funding tied to projects instead of value. Decision latency that strangles feedback. Governance architectures that reward the behaviors killing flow. Most books hand executives either high-altitude philosophy or a team-level framework manual. Neither helps a leader staring at a unique, messy constraint that doesn't fit the textbook.

Applied Enterprise Agility is the missing field-grade manual. It shifts the executive's role from Agile Sponsor to System Architect. It diagnoses the three barriers - Alignment Drift, Choked Flow, Broken Feedback - and the 23 specific gaps that silently kill strategy execution. It delivers the Value Acceleration Process: a scalable, iterative alternative to the big-bang transformation that keeps failing.

Budget the team and fund the increment. Diagnose the drag. Architect the flow.

Short on theory. Long on action. Read it on Sunday, fix the flow on Monday.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZGNDY8R
• ISBN13: 9798995897507
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Applied Agility Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"