In my work with CEOs and other corporate executives, the question I get asked the most is (paraphrased): What don't I even know to ask? My response is that most CEOs, on the morning after launching an agile initiative, wake up with several concerns, most of them related to what I call the "five fears of an agile leader." These can be identified as the fear of:
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