Recent Blog Posts
Car Talk: A Master Class In Either/Or Thinking
Years ago, when I was living in Cambridge, MA, I was a big fan of Ray and Tom Magliozzi, two MIT graduates who operated a car repair shop near where...
Unlocking Success: Exploring the Power of Structured Conversations and Decision-Making Methodologies
An exciting part of my work is when we introduce the Ten skills of Strategic Doing and help others explore how they may gain more results through a structured conversation....
A Brief Overview of Strategic Doing
Strategic Doing – a peer-reviewed, scientifically grounded practice -- teaches the discipline of collaboration and strategy in open networks. The practice works well to develop collaborations across siloed organizations, multi-disciplinary...
Complexity Thinking. What is it?
There are many ideas and no clear consensus. Here's how I have used the framework as a practitioner for over 30 years. I'll start with why complexity thinking matters. Humankind...
Fostering Synergy: Uniting Central and North Wisconsin for Entrepreneurial Growth
“Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in central and north Wisconsin” was the focus of the Strategic Doing Workshop lead by Liz Nilsen and Janyce Fadden from the Agile Strategy Lab. Carie...
Unleashing Change: The Three Levers of Agile Leadership for Achieving Desired Outcomes
Agile leaders have three ways or levers in which they can affect change that allows the entity to achieve desired outcomes. These are – Process, Tools, and People. Process is...
Jumping Curves
In our Strategic Doing trainings and in the book, one of the core concepts is the idea of “jumping curves.” Individual organisms, technologies, and economies all obey the principle of...
Empowering Effective Leadership Through Strategic Doing
Caitlin Burns, the President of the Shoals Chamber of Commerce, attended the Strategic Doing Practitioner Training when she first took on the role as Chamber President. In this new role,...
Strategic Doing vs. Strategic Planning
Strategic Doing vs. Strategic Planning: at nearly every presentation we do at the Lab, we get some version of this question. What’s the difference? Why do Strategic Doing? If you’ve...
Moving from “Command and Control” to “Design and Do”
One mistake that we humans make is that we think we have time. Well, we don't. Not really. For example, we've known for at least 30 years that our organizations...
Collaboration and Team Problem-solving with College Students
Steven Puckett, a Lecturer of Marketing and Management at the University of North Alabama, has been a long-standing advocate of using Strategic Doing. His introduction to Strategic Doing during his...
Do We Really Know What Agile Means?
A common word to use now to tell employees what they need to do to advance themselves or the institution is to be agile. It’s popular in many articles, job...
