Strategic Diversity
Get out your building blocks
This is the fourth post in our 14-week series exploring the 4 Questions and 10 Rules of Strategic Doing, first outlined in this October 2023 blog post. Each week, we unpack one…
Read More5 Ways to Be an Agile Leader
Leadership can feel like an endless journey in putting out fires: circumstances can change at a moment’s notice. Here are 5 ways to be an agile leader: Use cognitive diversity…
Read MoreStrategic Doing Under the Hood
This graphic takes you under the hood of how an agile strategy process works within open networks, teams, and collaborations, including the development of ecosystems. Here are the key points:
Read MoreDiversity beyond demographics
There are many kinds of diversity – ethnic, gender, age, language, etc. But is there diversity beyond demographics? The most recent Third Thursday gathering of the Strategic Doing community –…
Read MoreIntroducing Cognitive Diversity to Purdue Students
Purdue students have a difficult time with team assignments. Too often, unproductive members of the team drag down productivity and increase the frustration of other members. Until now, Purdue faculty…
Read MoreDiversity Drives Innovation – But Not the Kind You Think.
We’re finding more and more value in the concept of “strategic diversity” – that is, the way in which team members’ cognitive preferences shape their roles on the team. Learning…
Read MoreMBA Course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
The Lab has launched its new course in Krannert on agile strategy and collaborative leadership. The course takes students through the key elements of how to lead an agile strategy…
Read MoreVisualizing Cognitive Diversity in Teams & Organizations
The last few days we’ve been working closely with our colleagues at Human Insight Ltd to measure and visualize “strategic diversity,” or cognitive diversity in the context of strategic transformation. Complex…
Read MoreStrategic Diversity Assessments for Students in the School of Engineering Technology
Collaboration involves a complex basket of skills. No individual is equally proficient in all of them. Indeed, we migrate toward our comfort zone. The challenge, of course, involves understanding how …
Read MoreStrategic Diversity gives practitioners a new tool to maximize the impact
We’re rolling out a new tool: Strategic Diversity. Strategic Diversity builds on the idea of the S-Curve. As we discuss in our workshops, an S-Curve is a useful model for…
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