In this edition:
- Autumn programme: conferences, LIKE, and TTT/F
- Concluding the “Leadership as…” series
- A post-Wholehearted version of my white paper, Everywhere all at once
1. Autumn Programme: conferences, LIKE, and TTT/F
In the form of my talk “Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation”, I will be taking my new book, Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation to three quite different conferences:
- SysPrac25, the System Thinking Practitioners Conference, in Milton Keynes, UK
- The big technology conference Øredev, in Malmö, Sweden
- Kanban India 2025, in Bengaluru, India, to which I have been coming more years than I can remember!
My trips to Scandinavia and India create some training opportunities – two LIKEs and a TTT/F:
- 3-4 November, Copenhagen, Denmark:
Leading in the Knowledge Economy (LIKE) – Copenhagen - 30 November to 01 December, Pune, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) – Pune - 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading in the Knowledge Economy (LIKE) – Bengaluru
There are a couple of things to note about those. First, the Copenhagen one (which might join the conference on the Swedish side of the bridge in Malmö) needs a venue. Can you help? Would your organisation like to host it in return for free &/or discounted places or some other arrangement? It will be the first in-person training of its kind since the publication of Wholehearted, and it would be great to get at least a small quorum together sooner rather than later.
Second, the TTT/F in Pune (not in Bengaluru as in previous years) is the only public TTT/F planned for the remainder of the year. If you travel to India for this or for LIKE, you won’t be the first to have done so – it can be surprisingly cost-effective. And take in the conference while you’re there!
2. Concluding the “Leadership as…” series
Seven articles inspired by Chapter 4 – the scaling chapter – of Wholehearted:
- Leadership as structuring
- Leadership as translating
- Leadership as reconciling
- Leadership as connecting
- Leadership as inviting
- Leadership as representing
- Untangling the strands (Or: How not to scale, and a remedy)
Those last two posts (which you can take in either order) bring the preceding five together nicely, so you might like to start with one of those.
It’s hard to say whether my experimental policy of publishing to LinkedIn first has made a significant difference, but I will stick with it for a bit longer. LinkedIn being what it is, reactions (likes etc) are great, but it’s comments that really bring posts to others’ attention. Tell us what you think!
3. A post-Wholehearted version of my white paper, Everywhere all at once
Earlier versions of my white paper Everywhere all at once: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, an accessible, situational, and complexity-aware presentation of the Viable System Model were released in June and December 2023. Even that later version preceded the publication of Wholehearted by well over a year, and I have now reworked it. I’ll release this new version next month under an amended title, but if you’d like to review it meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
As for the book, you can find Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (April 2025) in both print and Kindle editions on amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, amazon.de and other Amazon sites around the world. The e-book is also available on LeanPub, Kobo, Apple Books, and Google Play Books. Enjoy! Leave a review!
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