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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Closing The Agility Gap - How Companies Move Faster, Together [Watch (HLS stream): Closing The Agility Gap - How Companies Move Faster, Together](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bZEyUCnM.m3u8) (1:30)  _Published 2026-09-14. Project Management Institute, Enterprise agility, Organizational coherence, Agile leadership, Decision-making at scale, Decentralized decision-making, Shared enterprise outcomes, Cross-functional collaboration, Strategy execution, Strategy translation, Strategic alignment, Decision rights, Empowered teams, Customer-centric decision-making, Distributed leadership, Continuous innovation, Innovation in established companies, Organizational transformation, Leadership accountability, Moving authority closer to customers, How companies move faster without losing coherence, How CEOs empower teams, Making innovation part of the core business, Building alignment across functions, Decision-making without the CEO_  #### _At a Washington dinner convened by Project Management Institute and the Global Peter Drucker Forum, executives discussed how companies can push decisions closer to customers while keeping a common direction._ By Project Management Institute Most CEOs want their companies to move faster. Few want hundreds of teams making faster decisions in different directions. Enterprise agility means giving people room to adapt without letting every team reinterpret the strategy. At the dinner, PMI President and CEO Pierre Le Manh noted that 85% of CEOs say agility is important, while only one-third believe their companies are agile. The hard part is changing who makes decisions without letting the company fragment. ### **Start With Shared Outcomes** Most companies are managed by function. Sales, finance, operations, technology and HR each have their own targets. Functional targets create accountability, but they can also reward a function for hitting its number while the company misses the larger outcome. One of the values in PMI’s Manifesto for Enterprise Agility is shared enterprise outcomes over functional optimization. It calls for more objectives that leaders own together, rather than a system in which each executive is judged mainly on the performance of a single function. Keep functional accountability, but add outcomes no single function can deliver alone. Projects expose the problem. A project can meet scope, schedule and budget and still fail to deliver the business result the strategy was meant to produce. ### **Move Decisions Closer to Customers** A company is not agile if every important question has to travel back up the hierarchy. Simply delegating more will not work. Teams need to know what they can decide and where the limits are. “Move authority and decision making to where value is created,” Le Manh said. In many companies, that means giving more decision-making power to the people working with customers and developing products, rather than keeping it inside finance, legal or another central function. The CEO sets the direction and keeps only a small number of decisions at the top. The rest should not keep coming back. If they do, authority has moved in theory, not in practice. ### **Translate, Don’t Just Communicate** Vince Molinaro, founder and CEO of The Leadership Contract, argued that companies often treat strategy as a communication exercise when it needs to be translated into the work of the organization. He said senior leaders often assume “there’s more clarity than there actually is.” Executives tend to explain strategy in the language they use with boards, investors and analysts. Employees need to know what changes in their work, what they should stop doing and which decisions they can now make themselves. Repeating the strategy at every town hall does not tell people how to use it. People understand the strategy when they can use it to settle a conflict or make a tradeoff without waiting for senior management.  ### **Make Innovation Part of the Main Business** Julia Kirby of the Global Peter Drucker Forum described how established companies were built to improve efficiency, reliability and quality. Innovation often happened in a separate team, away from the main operation. That arrangement is becoming harder to sustain. Kirby argued that the same conditions forcing companies to become more agile have also “made innovation job one for companies now.” Innovation can no longer be left to a small group at the edge of the company. It has to happen continuously and closer to the core of the business. As conditions change faster, senior leaders cannot settle every issue themselves. Teams need enough context to act. ### **The Test Is What Happens Without You** David Bohigian, President of Stern Strategy Group, described how he built support for the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation when the agency was at risk of being closed. He brought together stakeholders with very different interests and showed each of them how the agency supported priorities they already cared about. That network helped turn a threatened agency into a larger institution with broad bipartisan backing. “If you can help direct that network, it’s more powerful than anything you could possibly do on your own,” Bohigian said. The lesson applies inside a company as well. Leaders two or three levels below the CEO should understand the few outcomes that matter and be able to make a difficult call without sending it back up. The strategy is clear when people can make the right tradeoff without the CEO in the room.  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