Agile leadership and its relevance to Kenya's economic take-off

Workers packaging mango juice at a factory in Elgeyo Marakwet County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

According to scholars such as Nagel and Dove, the paradigm of "agile" which is understood as the competence of companies to live in the global world full of threats, was first presented in 1991 by Lehigh University in an academic paper.

Since then, "agility" has increasingly become a trend word. In recent years, more and more organisations are trying to become "agile" and implement agile corporate structures.