New book
Positive Agility
Leading Teams and Organisations with Empathy, Trust, and Purpose
by Ricardo J. Minas
A practitioner's guide to building agile organisations that are genuinely human, written for leaders and coaches who want more than a methodology.
After more than twenty years coaching leaders, building teams, and running transformations across Europe and beyond, I wrote the book I wished I had when I started.
Positive Agility goes beyond frameworks and ceremonies. It addresses the harder questions: How do you build psychological safety in an organisation that rewards compliance? How do you develop Agile leaders who actually lead, rather than manage upwards? What does it mean to stay human in a world that is being rapidly reshaped by artificial intelligence?
This book is for the Agile Coach navigating a difficult stakeholder landscape. For the leader who believes in their team but struggles to protect the conditions for them to thrive. For the practitioner who has watched too many transformations stall because the organisational culture never actually changed.
Agility without humanity is just organised speed. Positive Agility is about building organisations that are genuinely good at being human, under pressure, in uncertainty, and in change.
What's inside
Five parts covering the full arc — from the theoretical foundation to practical implementation, AI's impact on human work, and the future of agile leadership.
Part I
The Foundation
What Positive Agility is, where it comes from, and why the existing agile discourse has consistently underinvested in the human layer.
- The agility we actually need
- Human factors and the missing layer
- The Positive Agility framework
Part II
The Ten Elements
A deep exploration of each element in the Positive Agility framework, from Empathy and Trust to Emotional Intelligence and Resilience.
- Empathy and Trust
- Transparency and Continuous Improvement
- Flexibility and Empowerment
- Safety, Inclusivity, and Emotional Intelligence
- Continuous Learning and Resilience
Part III
Making It Real
Practical implementation: how to introduce Positive Agility into teams and organisations, measure progress, and build the conditions for lasting change.
- Where to start
- Facilitating the conversations that matter
- Measuring what matters
- Scaling across the organisation
Part IV
AI and the Human Factor
How artificial intelligence is reshaping work, leadership, and organisations, and why keeping the human factor present and alive is the most important leadership challenge of this decade.
- The AI inflection point
- What machines cannot replace
- Coaching in an AI-augmented world
- Ethical agility
Part V
The Future of Positive Agility
Looking forward: next-generation leadership, post-agile organisations, and the continuing journey.
- Next-generation leaders
- Post-agile organisations
- The continuing conversation
We do not need more agile vocabulary. We need more leaders who are willing to go first, to model the transparency, vulnerability, and learning orientation they are asking of their teams.