Liquid

Name: Liquid
Brand: CTO Sentinel
Price: 32.99 AUD

How CEOs & CTOs Unlock Flow and Momentum in Complex Systems

By: Kathy Keating, Etienne de Bruin, Scott Graves

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Paperback | 19 August 2025

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318 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.8

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Discover the secret system quietly driving your business forward-or holding it back.

At first, everything clicks. The product is taking off. The team is humming. Decisions are fast, execution is smooth, and growth feels effortless.

Then, slowly, or sometimes all at once, progress stalls. Teams get tangled. Priorities blur. Work that used to flow now feels stuck. You try to fix it: more people, more process, more pressure. But nothing works for long. The harder you push, the more sluggish things become.

What if the problem isn't the actions you're taking but the hidden systemic forces that actually govern your results?

Liquid invites you to see your business differently. Not as a collection of teams and tasks, but as a complex adaptive system. One that's constantly shifting, often in ways you can't see or predict. Beneath every team dynamic, delivery delay, or organizational bottleneck is a hidden world shaping outcomes. And unless you can see that world, you're destined to repeat the same frustrating patterns, over and over again, as you grow.

Drawing on decades of experience as CTOs, coaches, and systems thinkers, Kathy Keating, Etienne de Bruin, and Scott Graves reveal why companies stall as they scale, and how leaders can restore clarity, momentum, and adaptability. Liquid introduces the four emergent properties all effectively run technology organizations exhibit: the CTO Sentinel. CTOs and CEOs will gain real-world insights they can use to shift their company into the productive state of continuous flow.

If you've ever wondered why your teams slow down when they should be speeding up, or why scaling seems to introduce more drag than lift, this book will change the way you see your organization-and the way you lead.

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