Agendashift roundup, August 2024

In this edition: Book 5 update; Heads up on some forthcoming changes; The Great Consolidation: What it means and how it went; Top posts

Book 5 update

For the uninitiated, book 5 is Wholehearted: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, which I hope to publish early next year. It’s “book 5” to distinguish from “book 4” – a very different book – and their development overlapped. Again, if you missed it, book 4 is Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take On Adaptive Challenges and it’s available both in print and on Kindle.

Last month, I was pushed to the limit on completing chapter 4 as planned because I was also updating the preceding chapters to take into account the great response to this blog post:

Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation (July)

It being the holidays (our disability-adapted accommodation on a farm in the Peak District was perfect for us, by the way), I didn’t make a firm commitment on when I would finish chapter 5 (“Organising without reorganising”, previously advertised as “Organising at human scale”). Nevertheless, there’s a decent chance that I’ll get it out to my review team today. That leaves just chapter 6 (“What Lies Beneath”) and, um, everything else. These things take time…

As mentioned last month, the blog post most relevant to chapter 5 is this one:

Your organisation in 5 networks (November 2022)

From networks we go to Adaptive Space (Michael Arena), Teaming (Amy Edmonsdon), Dynamic reteaming (Heidi Helfand) and more. And here’s a blog post for that final chapter, chapter 6:

What Lies Beneath (Spoiler: Constraints) (October 2023) Heads up on some forthcoming changes

in the next 10 days or so, watch out for an update on not just the calendar below but some exciting changes not only to content but also access to the assessment tools and other Agendashift / Leading with Outcomes resources. If the delay to the online TTT/F is a problem for you meanwhile, drop me a line and we’ll see what we can work out.

Meanwhile:

8-9 October, Online:
Project to Product Summit 22-24 October, Barclays Eagle Labs, Southampton, UK:
Leading for Innovation in the Knowledge Economy (Southampton) (formerly Leading in a Transforming Organisation)*11-14 November, four 4-hour sessions online, afternoons UK time:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) *6-7 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2024 8-9 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) *

*Offers:

TTT/F and LIKE events include free one-year membership of the Leading with Outcomes Authorised Facilitator programme, upgradeable to Authorised Trainer at any time.If you’ve attended a TTT/F before, you can re-attend the online one for free. I can’t make the same offer for in-person training, but for the Southampton one at least, there are generous discounts for past attendees of either kind of training.There are generous discounts also for employees in the public, educational, and non-profit sectors, etc. Ping me for coupon codes!The Great Consolidation: What it means and how it went

What it means: the Agendashift Academy is off the Kajabi platform and running completely on Circle, which has hosted most of our self-paced training content for some time now. I had a DNS-related glitch when rehearsing the move a couple of weeks prior to the main event, but everything went smoothly on the day. Old community.agendashift.com links redirect automatically to academy.agendashift.com, so there’s no great need to update your bookmarks.

For the last few months we have been using the Circle’s inbuilt subscription system, and if you have an older subscription, you can almost certainly save some money by switching. Get in touch if that might be you. And if you’re not already a subscriber, what are you waiting for? Check out (pun intended) the Store page now!

Top posts Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation (July) From Flow to Business Agility (January) Agile’s Great Rebalancing: My next book’s take on the Agile manifesto (April) Your organisation in 5 networks (November 2022) What Lies Beneath (Spoiler: Constraints) (October 2023)

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Foundation module: Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Inside-out Strategy: Part I: On the same page, with purpose Part II: Fit for maximum impact Adaptive Organisation: Part I: Business agility at every scale Part II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Outside-in Strategy: Part I: Positioned for success Part II: A platform for performance

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