Recent Blog Posts
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...
Induction to ACES
The University of North Alabama is proud to announce the membership of one of our colleagues to The Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (ACES). Among the esteemed inductees is Dr....
Forming New Ecosystems
Over the past months, I've been coaching #strategicdoing practitioners as they design and guide the formation of new ecosystems. These ecosystems generate solutions to wicked problems. They help us close our ingenuity gap...the...
Strategic Doing Rule 11: Do it Again!
Recently a leader of a Strategic Doing Workshop called about how they have finished their first Pathfinder Project and want to know what to do next? A Strategic Doing Workshop...
