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Pulling a rabbit out of the hat – Rule/Skill #6
This post is one of a series on the 10 rules/skills and 4 questions of Strategic Doing and agile leadership. Catch up by learning how to find your "Big Easy"...
Into the Matrix – Rule/Skill #5
This is the seventh post in our 14-week series exploring the 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing, first outlined in this October 2023 blog post. We're at the...
What should we do? – Question #2
The second of the "four big questions" in our ongoing 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing series. Catch up with the first big question here. Modern Suzhou -...
A miracle occurs here – Rule/Skill #4
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 – Rule/Skill #3
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? – Question #1
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 – Rule/Skill #2
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? – Rule/Skill #1
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...
