# Keynote: CDW Executive Summit – The Importance of Agile Leadership
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Jim Carroll delivered the keynote address at a series of CDW Executive Summits held in Dallas, Miami, and Phoenix in early 2016, speaking to CIOs and senior technology executives of Fortune 1000 companies spanning manufacturing, retail, CPG, healthcare, transportation, and logistics. CDW hosted the events in connection with its PGA Tour sponsorship, bringing together its most senior enterprise clients for a strategic leadership conversation. Carroll’s talk, “The Importance of Agile Leadership,” challenged technology executives to rethink the pace at which they were adapting their organizations — not agility in the software development sense, but agility as a core leadership trait in an era of rapid market, consumer, product, and disruptive business model change. The message: the half-life of every technology strategy was collapsing, and winning organizations were those that had built the organizational muscle to pivot fast and often.

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