Agile
A Trip into the Swampy Lowlands
Put on your boots. In this post, we are heading into the swampy lowlands of real-world problems. But first, some background. Each year, the BBC presents a lecture series, called…
Read MoreGetting ready for the next big challenge
Next Tuesday we launch the “next edition” of our online course, Building an Agile Economy. Every leader in every community and region needs to be thinking now about how to…
Read MoreChanging Our Perspective
Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate, came up with one of the dumbest quotes of all time: “if the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, there would be a…
Read MorePartnership with the Agile Business Consortium
Our work with the Agile Business Consortium continues to grow. The Consortium’s Framework for Business Agility is designed to help organizations become more adaptive, creative and resilient. One dimension of…
Read MoreTry out an online course – for free
Today we’re launching a free one-week course: Conversations that Matter – An Introduction to Agile Leadership. If you’ve been thinking about taking one of other online courses, this will give…
Read MoreLearn the skills of agile leadership
In Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership, we describe a set of specific practices that anyone can use to foster collaborative conversations – especially when facing challenging times, when…
Read MoreLeadership in a crisis: Think coherence
Here’s an exceptionally good article on leadership in a crisis. We’ve seen this emerging trend for some time: in an era of growing complexity, coherence is more important than vision.…
Read MoreUnderstanding Agility in Business: Use the S Curve
We continue to define the term “strategic agility” more rigorously. Following an S-Curve framework, there are 5 critical strategic focus areas an enterprise must manage. (I corrected the image. You…
Read MoreMeanwhile, in Shanghai…
Who knew? Our book is in some fine company in Shanghai. We are listed as the Number 4 most popular business book by Shanghai Daily. Our favorite on the list:…
Read MoreStrategy is….
Strategy is like software. If you can’t get your ideas off the whiteboard, they have little value. If you can’t test your thinking with practical experiments, you will never learn.…
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