Designing in the Dark

How Curious Leaders Navigate Uncertainty, Shape Possibility, and Create Without a Map

By: David S. Morgan

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A bold new leadership guide for navigating uncertainty, complexity, and change.
Your plan collapsed. The market shifted. Your team wants answers—and the old playbook is useless.
Welcome to the dark.
Designing in the Dark equips leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers to move forward when the path disappears. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, complexity leadership theory, and real-world cross-sector experience, David S. Morgan offers a new operating system for those leading in the fog of uncertainty.
This book won’t hand you a rigid plan. It offers something more powerful:

• A way to navigate without false certainty
• Tools to sense what’s emerging before others can see it
• Practices to turn tension into traction, and resistance into momentum
• The courage to lead without pretending to know

You’ll also discover how to build teams and cultures that adapt in real time—where leadership is shared, creativity is decentralized, and direction emerges through interaction, not command. Designing in the Dark helps you embed self-organization into the way you lead, decide, and design forward.
Through vivid stories and actionable tools, you’ll follow three leaders—Asha, Nico, and Maya—as they navigate crisis, emergence, and transformation in very different contexts. Their journeys reveal a deeper truth:
The fog isn’t in your way. It is your way.
Whether you’re a founder adapting to disruption, an executive guiding change, or a leader reimagining how we navigate the unknown, Designing in the Dark will help you move—not with yesterday’s certainty, but with tomorrow’s wisdom.

Ideal for readers of:

• Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
• The Practice by Seth Godin
• Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein
• Theory U by Otto Scharmer
• How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lead with presence.
Move with curiosity.
Design, even in the dark.