Many good books never get a decent chance; they are, like the lovely flower in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard" (1751), "born to blush unseen," destined to "waste its sweetness on the desert air". Many bad books, conversely, climb the best-seller list like a nimble burglar scaling the fire escape.
In the videogame "Assassin's Creed," the hooded character Altair is nimble enough to scale any building.
Ms. Melville, a fast-rising actress who shot to attention last year in the solo play "Iphigenia in Splott," proves her skills as an adroit team player fully capable, like the nimble woman she portrays, of scaling the heights.
The oil giants will either have to adapt to new circumstances, while scaling back their operations, or face takeover challenges from more nimble and aggressive firms.
Choose a partner who understands the real estate industry as much as technology — one you are confident will be around another six months, one year or five years — and a nimble solution that can scale as your needs evolve and your business grows.
"Centralizing these functions will enable us to execute more quickly — and ultimately help us be more nimble and effective as we continue to aggressively scale the company.
However, by tapping into decentralized, local communities, businesses can scale with more efficiency (smaller, more nimble, more personalized locations versus one large behemoth) and provide the customer with a better experience — like, say, Airbnb.
What's really powerful about this organizational structure, is its ability to scale rapidly across geographies making for a nimble, efficient, and diverse organization.
Consultants are being asked to design processes that can scale easily to millions of subscribers while remaining nimble.
The role of private philanthropy is to be nimble, to be entrepreneurial, to do the cutting edge and controversial work -- to test the concepts that, if they prove successful, can later be scaled up by public support.
