Agile Theater Humor: How Inner Circles Create “Agility”

The Scenario: This agile theater humor cartoon reveals the intersection of methodology and social exclusion.

It shows leadership creating an "inner circle" to solve the problems of a flat organization, effectively turning a professional transformation into a glorified office clique.

While the official charts show equality, the reality is a "Pay-to-Play" system where agility is reserved for those in the clique, while the rest of the staff is left performing for an audience that isn't listening.

The Observation: This narrative identifies "The Professionalized In-Group."

At Kaapi with Ravi, we observe that the most dangerous office clique cartoons are those where the clique is disguised as a "Strategic Task Force" or a "Leadership Circle."

No matter how many Post-it notes you use, you can't have a flat organization if the people at the top are still acting like the "cool kids" at the lunch table.

Agile transformation is often just the process of taking the office clique out of the breakroom and giving them a dedicated Slack channel and a "Strategic Advisor" title.

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• Series: Office Clique Cartoons 

  
  

• Theme: Office Politics Cartoons