Innovation
Calling Captain Obvious?
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,…
Read MoreWhat do we know?
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…
Read MoreInnovating Leadership: The Convergence of AI and Strategic Doing
Image generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E. Guest Blog by Ubaldo M. Córdova-Figueroa My Introduction to Strategic Doing The path of professional growth often unfolds in unexpected ways, leading us through a…
Read MoreRevisiting S-Curves
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…
Read MoreComplexity 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…
Read MoreLoose 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.
Read MoreHow to Become Better at Implementation
The US is good at invention but not very good at implementation. We have generated a boatload of Nobel prizes but stumble at the broader challenges of technology adoption and deployment.
Read MoreWhat’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.
Read MoreInsights into Collaboration & Innovating Networks
The central question: How do we do strategy in networks?
Read MoreAaron 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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