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Agility enables you, your team, and your organization to streamline slow and awkward actions, overcome obstacles quickly, and adapt to change with ease and grace.

Agility isn’t a formula, a framework, nor a set of roles and rituals to follow. It’s a timeless way of being that matures with practice…

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1 author picked Joy of Agility as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

When agile software development emerged, many developers saw it as a way to end the era of death march projects. The more "agile" caught on, the less it looked like the original concept.

In the face of the corruption of the movement, Joy Of Agility is a wonderful return to positive ideas that make you agile, not hasty. As we all push back against the industrial complex that has appropriated the agile movement, this book is the white wizard shining blinding light that chases away the monsters.

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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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