Hyperadaptive - by Melissa M Reeve (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This isn't another book about AI technology. This is a book about the organizational evolution that AI demands.

Most leaders are paralyzed without a human blueprint for AI transformation. Isolated successes don't scale because they collide with company culture, roles, and resistance to change. Without a plan for people, the path from promising experiments to AI-native future remains frustratingly unclear.

AI integration expert Melissa Reeve provides the missing blueprint. Drawing from four decades of organizational research reimagined for the AI era, she reveals how companies like Moderna, Nike, and Toyota evolved from running AI projects to becoming Hyperadaptive Organizations that sense, respond, and evolve at AI speed.

This book delivers the five-stage progression from AI foundation to organizational orchestration with concrete actions for each phase, explains why 80% of AI initiatives fail and how to avoid predictable pitfalls, guides you through the "messy middle" where old structures collide with new capabilities, provides practical frameworks for restructuring roles, governance, and resources as AI reshapes work, and shares real-world case studies of organizations that successfully rewired themselves for AI.

Whether you're a senior executive setting strategic vision, division leader implementing solutions, or change champion driving adoption, this book addresses your specific challenges. It doesn't promise overnight transformation but provides honest guidance, proven patterns, and hard-won insights needed to evolve your organization incrementally but inevitably toward Hyperadaptivity

Review Quotes

"A bold, humane vision for organizations to become Hyperadaptive, where people and AI learn, innovate, and evolve together. This book reframes AI as organizational change, guiding leaders to redesign human and structural foundations to facilitate continuous innovation, measurable results, and entirely new ways of creating value." --Audrey Boydston, Chief Experience Officer for Thoughtful Agile

"A practical, humane blueprint for scaling AI beyond pilots. Hyperadaptive shows leaders how to rewire governance, teams, and funding so value shows up in the P&L--without breaking the business."

--Angela Tucci, Board Director and Executive Coach

"AI presents the largest management challenge in the last century....This magnificent book shows the way forward, with phenomenal case studies that prove the effectiveness of the guidance."--Gene Kim, researcher and bestselling author of Vibe Coding, The Phoenix Project, and Wiring the Winning Organization

"In an era defined by AI-driven uncertainty, leaders need more than inspiration. They need a playbook. In Hyperadaptive, Melissa M. Reeve shows executives how to rewire their organizations to thrive amidst constant change, turning AI potential into a durable advantage. A timely and credible guide for leaders preparing their enterprises for tomorrow's reality."--Kathleen Schaub, management strategist, author of Marketing in the (Great, Big, Messy) Real World: Rewire Your Marketing Organization to Navigate Anything

"Melissa is your expert mountain guide to climbing through five stages to becoming a Hyperadaptive organization powered by people with AI. After setting the groundwork, the book shows how to get started, preparing you for each stage, step by step, with relevant examples to make the ideas concrete and actionable. I appreciated that this book not only helps you lead your organization to efficiency and profit but to its greater purpose with AI for people and planet. This is a must-read for all stages of your organization's AI journey!"--David Droge, Digital lead at Roche, Novartis, and WWF "Digital lead at Roche, Novartis, and WWF

"Most companies are trying to bolt AI onto a system built for predictability, not speed. Hyperadaptive cuts through the noise with a clear-eyed framework for rewiring how work actually gets done. This isn't about adopting AI. It's about becoming an organization that evolves with it.--Marc Sirkin, Founder, Marc Sirkin Consulting, former CEO, Third Door Media

"Most AI initiatives fail because organizations aren't built to adapt. Hyperadaptive delivers the missing blueprint for rewiring culture, roles, and decision-making so AI can scale. This is the roadmap leaders need to move beyond isolated experiments and build organizations that evolve at the speed AI demands.--Jim Ewel, Cofounder, Agile Marketing Alliance, former VP Marketing, Microsoft

"This is one of the most thoughtful books on AI organizational transformation available today. Hyperadaptive applies all the best principles, from true business agility to AI, with remarkable alignment and connection throughout. Fantastic."--Ken Spangler, (retired) EVP of IT and CIO of Global Operations Technologies, FedEx

"This is the book we have been waiting for. Finally, someone who gets that AI transformation is not a technology project; it is an organizational challenge. Practical, rigorous, and essential reading for anyone serious about leading this type of change."

--James Dwan, CEO, Catalyst Consulting, Ltd.

"We're all being asked the same question right now: 'Where do we start, and how do we scale responsibly?' Hyperadaptive answers that with a concrete path from isolated pilots to AI-native ways of working. I appreciate how it balances ambition with operational discipline, grounded in real case studies, clear stages, and a very human view of the change curve our people are being asked to walk."--Ed Keisling, SVP, Chief AI Officer, Progress

About the Author

Melissa Reeve brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective shaped by over three decades at the intersection of executive leadership, organizational transformation, and process excellence. Her foundation in the Lean mindset began at Waseda University in Tokyo, where she studied the Toyota Production System and witnessed Hino Motor Company's Andon cords in action. This early exposure to process excellence informed her pioneering work with Agile marketing from 2011.

As the first VP of Marketing at Scaled Agile and thought leader in the SAFe in Marketing space, Melissa immersed herself in systems thinking, Total Quality Management, DevOps, and Lean principles. She went on to co-found the Agile Marketing Alliance, where she built a community of Agile marketing practitioners and gained firsthand insight into the challenges of organizational change.

Recognizing the enormous impact of AI with ChatGPT's introduction in November 2022, Melissa dedicated herself to researching AI's organizational impacts. Hyperadaptive represents the culmination of this work, offering a synthesis of process excellence, organizational evolution, and the human side of AI integration that provides leaders with a practical pathway to becoming AI-native enterprises.