Recent Blog Posts
Agile Strategy and Talent Development in Fremont, Nebraska
It is never easy to figure out the collaborations needed to improve the productivity of our education and workforce development systems. Part of the challenge involves the different ways that...
MBA Course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
The Lab has launched its new course in Krannert on agile strategy and collaborative leadership. The course takes students through the key elements of how to lead an agile strategy...
Cleaning Up the North Carolina Coast with Strategic Doing
After the Lab leads a training in Strategic Doing, we encourage participants to put the skills to work immediately. Here's a good example. Gloria Putnam, with North Carolina Sea Grant, North...
Strategic Doing: The Book
Strategic Doing, the book is coming along. A group writing project with five authors, the book project introduces the 10 skills of complex collaboration. The working title: "Strategic Doing: Ten...
Hugs for Unity in Flint: Our Partnership with Michigan State
For over five years, the Agile Lab team has been donating its time to help civic leaders in Flint, Michigan. Our starting challenge: How could we reduce teenage homicide rates. Below,...
Strategic Doing in Corinth, Mississippi: “Positive, Pro-community Critical Thinking”
We scale our impact in agile strategy and Strategic Doing through a network of university partners. Here's an example. Earlier this week, Doug Barrett of the Institute for Innovation and...
Visualizing Cognitive Diversity in Teams & Organizations
The last few days we've been working closely with our colleagues at Human Insight Ltd to measure and visualize "strategic diversity," or cognitive diversity in the context of strategic transformation. Complex...
New Choice!
Ever tried to explain something to someone only to be met with a blank stare? Or maybe you’ve been on the receiving end, listening to an instructor or hearing a...
Need to Communicate Complex Ideas? Introducing CommPlexity
Many of us work not only work with complex ideas, we need to explain them to others in clear, compelling ways. We're rolling out a new offering to help. The...
Graduate Course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
The course brings together theories and insights from a variety of disciplines including engineering, management, psychology, and social science. Increasingly, leaders are being called upon to apply their expertise in...
Pop-Up Class: Agile Strategy in Engineering
Several undergraduate and graduate engineering students have approached the Lab about learning the disciplines of agile strategy. To address these requests we are designing a pop-up class, based on our...
Agile Strategy Lab in The Netherlands
The Lab has established a partnership in The Hague, where we do training. Our next training is scheduled for April. Meanwhile, participants in our last training are moving along the...
