Agendashift roundup, May 2025

In this edition: The wholehearted, deliberately adaptive organisation; Leading with Outcomes; Top posts

The wholehearted, deliberately adaptive organisation

Given that it’s the month after the full release of Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, it’s hardly surprising that I’ve been busy promoting the new book!

This week I was the guest at the Blackmetrics #BAcommunity webinar (thank you Adrian Reed for the invitation), and the recording, slides, references, and other links are already available here:

Keynote: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (agendashift.com)

I overran a bit, so there was less time than usual for Q&A. I’ll be more careful with the level of detail in future versions! I’m giving it again next week, but in person:

05 June, Nottingham, England:
Mike Burrows: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

Thank you Sergio Seelochan and Agile Nottingham for that one.

I have also been blogging on LinkedIn, and it’s turning into a series:

Leadership as structuring Leadership as translating Leadership as reconciling

To come:

Leadership as connectingLeadership and participationLeadership and identity

Further ahead, there’s the Autumn LIKE (the Spring one is past its halfway point now):

30 September to 11 November, online, cohort-based – 7 weekly sessions, 2 hours each:
Leading in the Knowledge Economy (LIKE) – Autumn 2025 cohort

Not yet in the calendar, I will do a 2-day in-person one of these in Bangalore in December, and possibly one in Sweden or Denmark in November if I’m accepted to speak at Øredev. I’m also very open to doing one again in Manchester – I have both university and NHS interest there, and it might be very cool to do one for both groups together.

Last but not least, and as previously announced, on the Media page you’ll find an interview released earlier this month with Rohit Gautam for his Curiosulus Chronicles podcast, and below that one, interviews released in April with Mike Jones and Laksh Raghavan for their Strategy Meets Reality and Cyb3rSyn Labs podcasts respectively.

Leading with Outcomes

All of the above comes very much under the Leading with Outcomes umbrella. Other news there:

A new Leading with Outcomes Cheat Sheet And check out Leading with Outcomes: Foundation for a new and cheaper Foundation-only subscription

And the next TTT/F begins on the 16th:

16-19 June, four 4-hour sessions online, afternoons UK time:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) Top posts

Blog:

(Pre)released today – Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (March) Agendashift roundup of the year 2024 (December) What Lies Beneath (Spoiler: Constraints) (October 2023) Leading with Outcomes Cheat Sheet v2.1 (May)My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019)

LinkedIn articles:

Leadership as structuring Mid-month update: Wholehearted Leadership in a Complex World and more Prescriptive vs descriptive Leadership as translating Leadership as reconciling