{"product_id":"optimized-for-yesterday-why-organizations-slow-down-when-execution-becomes-abundant-paperback","title":"Optimized for Yesterday: Why Organizations Slow Down When Execution Becomes Abundant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Florschuetz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAI changed the economics of execution. Most organizations are still operating as if it didn't.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, large organizations were designed around a rational assumption: execution was expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoftware 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose structures worked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the scarcity moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a strange new reality: \u003cb\u003eexecution gets faster while organizations get slower.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOptimized for Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e, Alan Florschuetz examines the hidden forces behind that contradiction and introduces a new vocabulary for understanding them: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDecision Latency\u003c\/b\u003e - the time an organization spends waiting after it already knows enough to learn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Coordination Tax\u003c\/b\u003e - the capacity consumed simply keeping fragmented parts of the organization aligned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cost of Certainty\u003c\/b\u003e - why the pursuit of predictive confidence can delay the evidence that would answer the question.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBounded Governance\u003c\/b\u003e - how organizations can preserve safety without placing human permission in every execution path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCapacity Funding\u003c\/b\u003e - why funding stable capability can be more adaptive than funding long-range predictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about AI tools, prompt engineering, or replacing people with machines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book about what happens to leadership, governance, funding, architecture, and organizational design when execution is no longer the scarce resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central idea is simple: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlanning produces predictions. Execution produces evidence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe organizations that thrive in the age of abundant intelligence will not necessarily be the ones with the most AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will be the ones that shorten the distance between intent and evidence-and learn faster than everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":71808565182717,"sku":"9798997125905","price":29.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/rNu110fS4c9798997125905.webp?v=1793814698","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/optimized-for-yesterday-why-organizations-slow-down-when-execution-becomes-abundant-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}