Liquid

How CEOs & CTOs Unlock Flow and Momentum in Complex Systems

Kathy Keating, Etienne de Bruin, Scott Graves

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CTO Sentinel
19 August 2025

Business strategy; Management & management techniques; Engineering: general

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.

By: Kathy Keating, Etienne de Bruin, Scott Graves
Imprint: CTO Sentinel
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9781967830015
ISBN 10: 1967830010
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 19 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathy Keating is a board-certified director, strategic advisor and CTO coach known for applying systems thinking to cultivate thriving product engineering organizations that deliver transformational growth. Etienne de Bruin is the founder of 7CTOs, a global peer network for technology leaders, and an executive coach focused on helping CTOs apply systems thinking to leadership. Scott Graves is a fractional CTO for scaling startups, specializing in helping fast-growing companies navigate complexity and thrive.