Calling Captain Obvious?

Captain's hat

Here’s a question for which we don’t need to be calling Captain Obvious – if you wanted to get advice on how teams work, who would you ask? More specifically,…

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What do we know?

encylopedias on a shelf

Encyclopedias had an important place in my childhood home. Many of the things I wanted to know and asked my parents about got the response, “Go look it up!” Often…

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Revisiting S-Curves

Agile strategy lab S curve like a road

Rethinking S-Curves has been on my mind lately. One of the most enjoyable parts of my work at the Agile Strategy Lab is working with Strategic Doing practitioners who are…

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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…

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Loose Hierarchies

MIT professor Thomas Malone wrote an important book, The Future of Work, nearly two decades ago. In it, he introduced “loose hierarchies,” a valuable concept lost mainly to practice. It’s time to resurrect it.

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What’s So New about the New Economy?

When Netscape launched in the early 1990s, we started moving into the economy driven by open innovation, knowledge, and networks. The Internet is our first interactive mass medium, and it is completely changing the way in which our economy operates.

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Aaron Beck and Strategic Doing

Aaron Beck, the father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) died this week. He had a powerful influence on the development of #strategicdoing. This strategy practice is designed to create a collective,…

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