The reference library

• Organisational Design

  Contingency and Design

  Lawrence and Lorsch, Galbraith, Nadler and Tushman, and Burton and Obel on fitting structure to environment, task and strategy.

• Execution and Operating Rhythms

  Rhythms, Cadences and Objectives

  Grove, Doerr and Beer on the objectives, cadences and conversations that convert strategy into weekly execution.

• Project and Program Management

  Lean, Agile and Iterative

  Beck, Sutherland and Schwaber, Anderson and Reinertsen on delivering complex, uncertain work through iteration, flow and feedback.

• Systems Thinking and Dynamics

  Cybernetics and Viable Systems

  Wiener, Ashby, Beer, and Maturana and Varela on what it takes for a system to regulate itself and remain viable.

• Lean and Operational Excellence

  The Toyota Production System and Lean

  Ohno, Womack and Jones, and Liker on the Toyota Production System and the lean movement it inspired.

• Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

  Naturalistic and Expert Judgement

  Klein, Simon and Gigerenzer on when intuition and simple rules outperform analysis under real-world uncertainty.

• Risk and Resilience

  Fragility and Antifragility

  Taleb, Sheffi and Hollnagel on designing organisations that endure, recover and even gain from shocks that cannot be forecast.

• AI in the Enterprise

  Capability and Adoption

  Brynjolfsson and McAfee, and Agrawal, Gans and Goldfarb on where AI creates enterprise value, and what has to change for a firm to capture it.

• AI in the Enterprise

  Organisational Implications

  Suleyman, Mollick and Davenport on turning AI capability, safety and governance into organisational reality.

• Founder and CEO Psychology

  Founder Journeys and Dilemmas

  Hamilton, Wasserman, Horowitz and Sutton on the founder’s journey — the choices, and the lived reality of leading through crisis and scale.

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