Each time one of these articles is written, they forget some essentials: 1. homo sapiens sapiens evolved to collaborate with about 150 people 2. enterprises a

Each time one of these articles is written, they forget some essentials: 1. homo sapiens sapiens evolved to collaborate with about 150 people 2. enterprises are the shared mythology to enable larger scale collaboration 3. part of that shared mythology is "corporate culture": a paraphrase for management culture Then people go on to conclude one of two extremes: a) Agile is the problem b) The way Agile was implemented is the problem Agile isn't the solution or the problem because it doesn't deal with issues of scale. Large scale collaboration is difficult because people think and act in local tribes: sales vs IT, business vs developers, etc. We're not seeing a crisis in methodologies. We're seeing a leadership crisis. Some of these real problems include: - failing to trust: let a person to do their job and give them the autonomy required to succeed - failing to plan: thinking in terms of quarterly budgets over multi-year plans - failing to support employees and instead shifting blame when things inevitably fail - failing to invest: minimal raises, mass layoffs, outsourcing... - failing to lead: having no vision, hiring silver bullet transformation coaches - failing to understand the market: not understanding what the core business or core demographic is, how to grow, how to do it sustainably (economically or ecologically) - failing morality: despite "corporate values", following the absolute minimum requirement of the law, lobbying to lower legal standards, sometimes to disastrous effect Not all of these apply to all companies, but too many do.