The Horizon Problem (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Michael Kaufmann, 2026
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Paperback. The transformation is on track. The dashboards are green. And everyone in the room knows it isn't true.Consultant Alex Meyer has seen it all before: the agile theater, the renamed roles, the slide decks that promise change and deliver choreography. But at Beyond Horizon Bank, the numbers have stopped cooperating. Deployments take months. Competitors ship eight times faster. The best engineers are quietly leaving.When CEO Sarah Thompson finally asks why nothing actually changes, Alex offers her a truth no framework will: the problem isn't the method. It's the system - the incentives, the fears, and the leaders who sponsor transformation while unconsciously defending the status quo.Told through the eyes of the people living it - a threatened middle manager, a cynical engineer, an AI specialist strangled by governance theater - The Horizon Problem is a business novel in the tradition of The Phoenix Project and The Goal. It follows a full enterprise transformation from illusion to reckoning to real change, and distills it into the practical Three-Layer Transformation Model you can apply to your own organization (included as an appendix).You will recognize your own company in these pages. The question is what you'll do about it.If it doesn't hurt, you're doing it wrong. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Horizon Problem (Paperback)
- Author
- Michael Kaufmann
- Publisher
- Michael Kaufmann
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3952665509
- ISBN 13
- 9783952665503
Consultant Alex Meyer has seen it all before: the agile theater, the renamed roles, the slide decks that promise change and deliver choreography. But at Beyond Horizon Bank, the numbers have stopped cooperating. Deployments take months. Competitors ship eight times faster. The best engineers are quietly leaving.
When CEO Sarah Thompson finally asks why nothing actually changes, Alex offers her a truth no framework will: the problem isn't the method. It's the system — the incentives, the fears, and the leaders who sponsor transformation while unconsciously defending the status quo.
Told through the eyes of the people living it — a threatened middle manager, a cynical engineer, an AI specialist strangled by governance theater — The Horizon Problem is a business novel in the tradition of The Phoenix Project and The Goal. It follows a full enterprise transformation from illusion to reckoning to real change, and distills it into the practical Three-Layer Transformation Model you can apply to your own organization (included as an appendix).
You will recognize your own company in these pages. The question is what you'll do about it.
If it doesn't hurt, you're doing it wrong.
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