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A miracle occurs here
This is the fifth post in our 14-week series exploring the 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing, first outlined in this October 2023 blog post. Each week, we...
Get out your building blocks
This is the fourth post in our 14-week series exploring the 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing, first outlined in this October 2023 blog post. Each week, we unpack one...
What could we do?
This is the third post in our 14-week series exploring the 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing, first outlined in this October 2023 blog post. Each week, we...
Asking great questions
This is the second post in our 14-week journey through the 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing, first outlined in this October 2023 blog post. Each week, we’re...
Safe space – what does that mean?
Welcome to the first post in our 14-week deep dive into the 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing.* These principles were first outlined in this blog post from...
Agile Leadership Crosses Cultures
Something I've found interesting for the almost-decade I've been teaching the principles is how agile leadership crosses cultures - but not always without adjustments. I was particularly interested to see...
Connecting Strategy to The Future with Strategic Foresight
Why Modern Telescopes—and Leaders—Depend on Signal Scanning True confession: until not that long ago, I thought telescopes were by definition something you look through to view something far away. So...
AI-Powered Ecosystem Building?
That's a road? If you say so... Distilling the themes of this week's Global Entrepreneurship Congress was easy: ecosystem-building and AI. Every single session I attended mentioned them both, and...
Harnessing Cognitive Diversity
We've long been introducing participants in our Strategic Doing trainings to the idea that harnessing cognitive diversity can be a team's superpower. I just returned from Suzhou, China, where the...
How the Agile Strategy Lab is Shaping the Future of Institutional Strategy
At the 2024 SCUP Annual Conference, higher education leaders were introduced to a dynamic and collaborative approach to strategic planning known as Strategic Doing. This agile methodology, championed by the...
Good news
Finding Hope in the Midst of Challenges It feels like a week when many of us are sorely in need of some good news. In countless arenas, there's not much...
Calling Captain Obvious?
Here's a question for which we don't need to be calling Captain Obvious - if you wanted to get advice on how teams work, who would you ask? More specifically,...
