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Maintaining long-term motivation

The Sisyphean Challenge of Team Leadership Maybe you remember Sisyphus from mythology - the guy who had to push the boulder uphill, only to have it tumble down as he...
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Third Thursday – March 21st, 2024

Speaker: Rhegan Derfus Topic: Experience with the Douglas area and food Insecurity.   Bio Rhegan Derfus, IBCLC, MSW  AZ Health Program Coordinator in Cochise and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona  Univeristy of...
Doug Dunston Third Thursday Speaker

Third Thursday – February 15th, 2024

Speaker: Doug Dunston  Topic: Motivation and Teams  Bio: Doug, a Fellow of the Strategic Doing Institute, is an educator, coach, facilitator, writer, and conductor with a deep technical and artistic background....
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Plugging the “ingenuity gap”

A few years ago, there was a growing buzz about the "ingenuity gap." The question posed by author Thomas Homer-Dixon was whether the world's problems have outstripped our ability as...
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Keeping your skills relevant as the world moves agile

The Rise of Agile Skills In the modern workplace, agility has become a keyword for success. As "Agile" becomes increasingly prevalent in job descriptions and performance reviews, the quest for...
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“What does Lean mean?

What does Lean mean? What does Lean stand for? What’s it all about? Good questions. To begin, ‘Lean’ is not an abbreviation, an acronym, or an initialism. Okay, so what...
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Collaborate to Innovate: Mastering Process Collaboration in the Agile Era

Understanding Process Collaboration Establishing a practice of Process Collaboration is a growing method for how work needs to be accomplished when a cross-functional team or a work area with multiple...
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Revisiting S-Curves

Rethinking S-Curves has been on my mind lately. One of the most enjoyable parts of my work at the Agile Strategy Lab is working with Strategic Doing practitioners who are...
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5 Ways to Be an Agile Leader

Leadership can feel like an endless journey in putting out fires: circumstances can change at a moment's notice. Here are 5 ways to be an agile leader: Use cognitive diversity...
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What’s in it for me to contact the Agile Strategy Lab? 

The feedback we received from participants in the Lab’s programs is that no one ever showed them how to work with teams or how their collaboration skills could be improved....
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Why experiments are part of agile strategy

Experiments make people nervous, at least outside of a science lab. They feel too risky to have a place in the serious business of strategy development and implementation. But in...
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Building a business ecosystem with agile strategies

Within the business ecosystem there are many ways to implement agile strategies. Many of these strategies use a variety of methodologies that can be embraced by the leadership team and...
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What’s Your Lego?

Modularity enables small things to grow into large things. Solar cells become solar arrays that become solar power stations. Modularity also makes sense to understand living systems. It's a central...
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Collaboration: An Infinite Game

A deep transformation is taking place across every organization, every region, every economy. It's a shift from closed, linear hierarchical thinking to more open, adaptive network thinking. But there's a...

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