Videos, notes, and links for keynote presentations
- Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
- Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you
- How to “create the conditions”: Engage, Invite, Celebrate
- In times of change, what scales better than process?
- To ‘Done’ and Beyond: Coordinating, Organising, Strategising, and Trust Building with Kanban
- Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes
- Agile Strategy Meetup: Meet Mike Burrows on Strategy (this page)
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Agile Strategy Meetup: Meet Mike Burrows on Strategy
On February 28th 2025 Mike joins an impressive roster of speakers at the Agile Strategy meetup to answer two questions:
- What is your view on strategy and its role and importance in an organisation. Any new trends or developments?
- What advice do you have for people on how to best engage in the topic of strategy in their organisation?
Join this session – Meet Mike Burrows on Strategy for insight into his forthcoming book Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation.
Video recorded February 18th 2025:
Download a PDF of the slides:
- meet mike burrows on strategising 2025-02-18.pdf (dropbox.com)
Read the book
Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation was published in April 2025.
Wholehearted-related training
Cohort-based training:
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30 September to 11 November, online, cohort-based – 7 weekly sessions, 2 hours each:
Leading in the Knowledge Economy (LIKE) – Autumn 2025 cohort
Includes a year's free access to the self-paced training, and covers the Foundation and two-part Adaptive Organisation modules.
Self-paced training:
- Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
- Inside-out Strategy
- Adaptive Organisation
- Outside-in Strategy
Save 15% with coupon code KEYNOTE15! Applies to all the trainings described above - cohort-based and self-paced.
Links
- The book: Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (imminent)
- Verbing the nouns of business agility (blog.agendashift.com)
- Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation (blog.agendashift.com)
- What Lies Beneath (blog.agendashift.com)
- Subscribe - for news on the book and other things!
References:
- Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (Agendashift Press, 2025)
- Brain of the Firm,
Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1972) - The Heart of Enterprise,
Stafford Beer (John Wiley & Sons, 1979) - The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model,
Patrick Hoverstadt (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)
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About us
Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.
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