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This can be visualized like the train "Snowpiercer". The "world" has to move. If it stops it dies.

Each company has a bunch of people betting on it to reach certain milestones at certain times. If the expectations are met, the story feels coherent (ppl inside the company are happy), otherwise the entire system is "whipped" to urge it to go faster.

The whipping urges the company to strive for a more powerful story which in turn requires each sub-system to cascade forwards its individual stories. This naturally incentivizes critical functions to minimize to a bare minimum. this is going "lean" for max acceleration.

younger people tend to be more compelling b/c they naturally have this desire to climb as high as they can. the danger for them is joining a cult, a high tower that is not built properly and collapses. (think of a cult as psychic architecture) (cult in the negative sense)

there is lack of "coherency" in the story. The plans to build the tower of babel were "Just stack new bricks on the bottom bricks."

If the story pressure is small, one might say this isn't a problem. Top speed isn't important. However...the lack of this forward energy means that there's no "acceleration". Also, since there's no forward energy to reign back, there's no "deceleration" either.

What "agile" means then is the ability to accelerate and decelerate in sync with turns so that the company moves through the landscape with efficiency and gracefulness. Even the most skillful strategy will fail if you're stuck at one speed.