Agile
Leadership in a crisis: Think coherence
Here’s an exceptionally good article on leadership in a crisis. We’ve seen this emerging trend for some time: in an era of growing complexity, coherence is more important than vision.…
Read MoreUnderstanding Agility in Business: Use the S Curve
We continue to define the term “strategic agility” more rigorously. Following an S-Curve framework, there are 5 critical strategic focus areas an enterprise must manage. (I corrected the image. You…
Read MoreMeanwhile, in Shanghai…
Who knew? Our book is in some fine company in Shanghai. We are listed as the Number 4 most popular business book by Shanghai Daily. Our favorite on the list:…
Read MoreStrategy is….
Strategy is like software. If you can’t get your ideas off the whiteboard, they have little value. If you can’t test your thinking with practical experiments, you will never learn.…
Read More2019 AURP Leadership Roundtable
If you’ve landed here after attending the 2019 AURP Leadership Roundtable in Atlanta on November 5, 2019, welcome! Here are a few ways to learn more about Strategic Diversity powered…
Read MorePodcast for Economic and Community Developers
A few weeks ago, I spent some time with Dennis Fraise of Develop This!, a podcast for economic and community developers. In this first podcast, I start by providing some…
Read MoreThree Hurdles to Digital Transformation
To transform our organizations and economies to higher levels of productivity, prosperity and sustainability, we need to design new systems from the assets of the old. That requires collaboration, a…
Read MoreAgile Strategy and Workforce Development: A Podcast
How do you design and guide complex transformations for workforce development? This podcast explores how workforce development professionals can learn a new set of skills to design and manage complex…
Read MoreInsights: Why Strategic Doing Beats Strategic Planning
A few weeks ago, I had a great conversation with Aga Bajer, of Culture Lab. In this interview, Aga and I discuss: The value of practice and discipline versus skimming…
Read MoreNew Mexico Sate’s Arrowhead Center: Integrating I-Corps with Strategic Doing
The National Science Foundation administers a highly successful program to accelerate commercialization of university research. Called Innovation Corps or I-Corps, the initiative builds a capability on university campuses to move…
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