Recent Blog Posts
What’s in it for me to contact the Agile Strategy Lab?
The feedback we received from participants in the Lab’s programs is that no one ever showed them how to work with teams or how their collaboration skills could be improved....
Why experiments are part of agile strategy
Experiments make people nervous, at least outside of a science lab. They feel too risky to have a place in the serious business of strategy development and implementation. But in...
Building a business ecosystem with agile strategies
Within the business ecosystem there are many ways to implement agile strategies. Many of these strategies use a variety of methodologies that can be embraced by the leadership team and...
What’s Your Lego?
Modularity enables small things to grow into large things. Solar cells become solar arrays that become solar power stations. Modularity also makes sense to understand living systems. It's a central...
Collaboration: An Infinite Game
A deep transformation is taking place across every organization, every region, every economy. It's a shift from closed, linear hierarchical thinking to more open, adaptive network thinking. But there's a...
Facing a Wicked Problem? Impose Constraints
Yesterday, I spent part of the day coaching an ecosystem builder in Greenville on designing a very early-stage approach -- Phase 0 -- to strengthen the region's entrepreneurial ecosystem. There's...
Appreciative Inquiry in Action
A few weeks ago I got the chance to see Appreciative Inquiry in action in Atlanta, as I joined the Spelman College faculty for a mini Strategic Doing session. Spelman,...
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...
