Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 The Architecture of Power: See what shapes outcomes. Find where you can act. by Yevgen Nebesov
Why do unwanted outcomes keep returning even after people, policies, or priorities change? The Architecture of Power gives readers a practical way to see the arrangements that make such outcomes durable and to identify where they may be changed. The book is written for professionals who...
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About the Book
Why do unwanted outcomes keep returning even after people, policies, or priorities change? The Architecture of Power gives readers a practical way to see the arrangements that make such outcomes durable and to identify where they may be changed.
The book is written for professionals who carry responsibility without decisive formal authority: architects, engineers, product and project leaders, internal change agents, and others who must influence systems they cannot command.
The title expresses the book's central perspective: power has an architecture. Outcomes are shaped not only by individuals but by arrangements of people, institutions, beliefs, objects, and material resources. Whether deliberately designed or gradually formed, these arrangements contain recurring elements and relationships that can be examined, mapped, and redesigned.
Part I introduces the Power Loop, a model of how power arrangements reproduce outcomes, and the Power Canvas, a diagnostic tool for mapping them. Its three application modes (Landscape Mapping, Phenomenon Tracing, and Conflict Analysis) help readers diagnose an arrangement and, where useful, identify candidate points of structural intervention without treating diagnosis as an action plan.
Part II begins from that diagnosis. It presents dozens of tactics for reshaping power landscapes from different positions, accounting for the access and constraints associated with each position.
Disclaimer
This edition contains Part I only, following the “publish early, publish often” approach.
Part II is currently in progress and is scheduled for release in October or November 2026.
You’ll be notified automatically when the updated edition becomes available. All updates are included at no additional cost.
About the Author
Yevgen Nebesov is an independent systems architect, consultant, and speaker with more than ten years of experience across transport, logistics, and medical technology. His work focuses on sociotechnical complexity: how technical decisions, organizational structures, and human behavior shape one another.
He created The Architecture of Power to help people understand why outcomes persist and where they can intervene. Through writing, workshops, and talks, he helps leaders, experts, consultants, and change practitioners create change from the position they actually hold, with or without formal authority.
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