Leading Innovation

in the face of changequakes

By Matthew Sinclair

How to lead teams and build organisations that thrive when the ground keeps shifting — complexity versus the merely complicated, perpetual beta, governing the blast radius, and culture as infrastructure. Four parts, twelve chapters, from diagnosis to a plan you can start on Monday.

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What's inside

Part I — The Ground Is Moving

Why the operating models most of us inherited fail when the ground will not hold still — and the one that takes their place.

• 1. Changequakes
• 2. Complicated, Not Just Complex
• 3. Perpetual Beta

Part II — The Declarative Shift

The move from telling machines how to telling them what — and what it asks of the people who lead the work.

• 4. From How to What
• 5. Working with Agents

Part III — Leading Through the Shift

The leadership disciplines that turn perpetual beta from a slogan into a working organisation.

• 6. Govern the Blast Radius
• 7. Culture as Infrastructure
• 8. Adaptive Process, and the DVFP Framework
• 9. Fund Like a Portfolio
• 10. Build the Radar
• 11. Org Design for Adaptive Engineering

Part IV — Making It Real

Turning the disciplines into a plan you can start on Monday — and the ways it tends to fail.

• 12. The Implementation Playbook
• Conclusion — The Leader's Stance
• References

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