Recent Blog Posts

Diversity Drives Innovation – But Not the Kind You Think.
We're finding more and more value in the concept of "strategic diversity" - that is, the way in which team members' cognitive preferences shape their roles on the team. Learning...

Teaching the Deep Skills of Collaboration in Middle School
In a few weeks, we will be beta testing an exciting new version of Strategic Doing: The Game. It is designed in partnership with young adult novelist Noah Knox Marshall. Ubuntu...

Strategic Doing and I-Corps at New Mexico State
Arrowhead Center—the economic development and technology commercialization arm of New Mexico State University—has implemented Strategic Doing to support its I-Corps teams. From New Mexico State, Lauren Goldstein will be making...

Agile Strategy Moves into Main Street
The Lab is building an international network of practitioners skilled in the disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. Built on the frameworks of Strategic Doing, this network is expanding...

The Lab Heads to Puerto Rico
We have confirmed that we are heading to Puerto Rico for a week, April 4-10. We are working with our colleagues with the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, our...

University of South Dakota | Center for Disabilities
Our Lab traveled to South Dakota to partner with the University of South Dakota and the Center for Disabilities. The Center manages a wide range of relationships to improve the...

Building an Agri-Food Ecosystem in the Netherlands
The Lab is heading back to The Netherlands. We are working with our Dutch partner, Human Insight, on a workshop to develop an innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in agribusiness and...

Training at the University of Oregon
Over the past three years, the Lab has been building a partnership with the University of Oregon to become a affiliate in the Strategic Doing university network. Earlier this month,...

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...