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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. AI changed the economics of execution. Most organizations are still operating as if it didn't.For decades, large organizations were designed around a rational assumption: execution was expensive.Software took teams of specialists to build. Infrastructure was scarce. Mistakes were costly. So companies learned to plan carefully, coordinate broadly, estimate extensively, and require layers of approval before committing resources.Those structures worked.Then the scarcity moved.Today, one capable person working with AI can increasingly produce in days what once required a team for weeks or months. But the organization surrounding that work may still require the same planning cycles, status meetings, review boards, funding gates, and approval chains.The result is a strange new reality: execution gets faster while organizations get slower.In Optimized for Yesterday, Alan Florschuetz examines the hidden forces behind that contradiction and introduces a new vocabulary for understanding them: Decision Latency - the time an organization spends waiting after it already knows enough to learn.The Coordination Tax - the capacity consumed simply keeping fragmented parts of the organization aligned.The Cost of Certainty - why the pursuit of predictive confidence can delay the evidence that would answer the question.Bounded Governance - how organizations can preserve safety without placing human permission in every execution path.Capacity Funding - why funding stable capability can be more adaptive than funding long-range predictions.This is not a book about AI tools, prompt engineering, or replacing people with machines.It is a book about what happens to leadership, governance, funding, architecture, and organizational design when execution is no longer the scarce resource.The central idea is simple: Planning produces predictions. Execution produces evidence.The organizations that thrive in the age of abundant intelligence will not necessarily be the ones with the most AI.They will be the ones that shorten the distance between intent and evidence-and learn faster than everyone else. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Your teams are working harder than ever. Your customers haven't seen a product update in months.An internal audit of forty strategic initiatives inside a global technology enterprise revealed something most leaders already feel but can't articulate: only 18 days of actual work were buried inside 242 days of waiting for permission. Eighty-five percent of the timeline wasn't building. It was aligning.The problem isn't your people. It's your operating system.Optimized for Yesterday is about what happens when execution becomes abundant but your organization is still engineered for scarcity. It explains why enterprises that move at the speed of software internally remain completely motionless in the market-and provides a concrete architectural framework for leaders ready to close the gap between intent and evidence.Inside this book, you'll discover: The True Bottleneck: Why decision latency-not technical capacity-is the defining constraint of the modern enterprise.The Coupling Trap: How tightly coupled systems silently dictate your org chart, your meeting cadence, and your velocity.The Amplified Sovereign: An execution model that compresses cross-functional delivery loops into high-leverage individuals.The Predictive Funding Deficit: Why your annual budget cycle guarantees you'll fund the wrong thing for a year.Bounded Governance: How to replace manual review boards with system-enforced automated perimeters that are both faster and safer.This book is for CTOs, CFOs, VPs of Engineering, and enterprise leaders who know their organizations are capable of extraordinary work-and are tired of watching that capability disappear into the friction of their own structure."The conference room protects us from mistakes. It also protects us from reality."Alan Florschuetz draws on more than three decades of technology leadership, platform engineering, and enterprise transformation to diagnose the invisible gravity that holds modern organizations in place-and design the operating system that finally lets them move. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…