It requires hedging bets, keeping your options open, and constantly pivoting in new directions. Forget 10-year visions. Forget 5-year roadmaps. Forget three-year plans. Long-term is a year. Short-term is a month.

Some people think being agile is a mindset. Others think it's an innate leadership skill. If you have the right tools, anyone can build agility into both how you think and as the foundation of your business processes. The goal is to create the capacity for resilience, no matter what's thrown at you.

• Get a team to define the variables that will be your success criteria
• Discuss whatever data you have, and score each of your opportunities on the criteria
• Tally the scores and map opportunities on a matrix or chart using online software, a spreadsheet, o...