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Bridging Continents: Agile Strategy Lab’s Australian Odyssey 2024
Embarking on a transformative journey, the Agile Strategy Lab recently traveled to Australia to deepen our global mission of cultivating agile leadership and strategic collaboration. This expedition was a profound...
Innovating Leadership: The Convergence of AI and Strategic Doing
Image generated by OpenAI's DALL-E. Guest Blog by Ubaldo M. Córdova-Figueroa My Introduction to Strategic Doing The path of professional growth often unfolds in unexpected ways, leading us through a...
Invite in the aard-VARK
The very first project of the Agile Strategy Lab - back when we were at Purdue - was overhauling its educational offering: Strategic Doing practitioner training. Strategic Doing had been...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...