# Wholehearted by Mike Burrows **URL:** \ **Category:** Reviews\ **Created:** [2 July 2026 13:37 UTC](https://yokoten.net/t/wholehearted-by-mike-burrows/198 "2026-07-02T13:37:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo](https://yokoten.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@Leo](https://yokoten.net/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [2 July 2026 13:37 UTC](https://yokoten.net/t/wholehearted-by-mike-burrows/198/1 "2026-07-02T13:37:28Z")
![image](https://yokoten.net/uploads/default/original/1X/bc18f8d30afc6cd38579c3b4c7cacccfefc657c0.png) How do leaders at all scales of organisation create the conditions for innovation, excellence, and performance? Initial clues are to be found in the Wholehearted organisation – one that recognises the leadership of those who find the right challenges to engage with, invite others into that process, and celebrate their successes. [Wholehearted by Mike Burrows](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wholehearted-Engaging-Complexity-Deliberately-Organisation/dp/106844360X) ---
**Author:** ![Peter](https://yokoten.net/user_avatar/yokoten.net/peter/32/87_2.png) [@Peter](https://yokoten.net/u/Peter)\ **Post date:** [2 July 2026 14:02 UTC](https://yokoten.net/t/wholehearted-by-mike-burrows/198/2 "2026-07-02T14:02:15Z")
I’ve really struggled with this book. It feels very academic, and that’s probably why I bounced off it a bit, and probably why I wouldn’t recommend it to many. I feel like I’ve struggled to grasp a lot of what it’s trying to say, although it feels like there’s some really valuable stuff in there. The system model I think makes sense and aligns to a lot of what we believe in is as follows: the top level purpose at the top, clear strategic (LPM) layer, doing of work, self-organised, but with co-ordination required between teams, leadership not management, and organising around products/services. It feels like there’s really valuable stuff in there on how to scale, how to organise, how to dynamically re-team, but just not articulated in a way that worked for me.