Collaboration
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…
Read MoreCollaboration: 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreJumping 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 the S-Curve
Read MoreEmpowering 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, she was presented with new challenges leading a team with their own responsibilities.
Read MoreHelping teams become teams
How do teams become teams? Last week a friend shared a remarkable video of the moment when a luna moth emerges from its cocoon. As a brand-new moth, it’s ugly,…
Read MoreTeaching Strategic Doing Skills in Higher Education
Recently, the Agile Strategy Lab worked with college faculty to develop courses that teach collaboration, teamwork, and networking.
Read MoreDeveloping Entrepreneurial & Innovation Ecosystems
Developing entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems matters to regenerate our economies. But too few civic and political leaders know why this step is so important. What’s worse, they don’t know how to start.
Read MoreCollaboration
Collaboration is a process of creating shared benefits. It’s also a process of co-evolution, of growing and adapting. Business punditry too often presents collaboration as a thing, or, worse, as a single event.
Read MoreThe Ingenuity Gap
Our ingenuity gap continues to grow. Our inability to design and guide “innovating networks” has led to the gap. But here’s the good news.
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