Training
Harnessing Cognitive Diversity
We’ve long been introducing participants in our Strategic Doing trainings to the idea that harnessing cognitive diversity can be a team’s superpower. I just returned from Suzhou, China, where the…
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 MoreInvite in the aard-VARK
The very first project of the Agile Strategy Lab – back when we were at Purdue – was overhauling its educational offering: Strategic Doing practitioner training. Strategic Doing had been…
Read MorePlugging the “ingenuity gap”
A few years ago, there was a growing buzz about the “ingenuity gap.” The question posed by author Thomas Homer-Dixon was whether the world’s problems have outstripped our ability as…
Read MoreWhat’s in it for me to contact the Agile Strategy Lab?
The feedback we received from participants in the Lab’s programs is that no one ever showed them how to work with teams or how their collaboration skills could be improved.…
Read MoreFostering Synergy: Uniting Central and North Wisconsin for Entrepreneurial Growth
Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in central and north Wisconsin” was the focus of the Strategic Doing Workshop lead by Liz Nilsen and Jancye Fadden from the Agile Strategy Lab.
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 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 MoreSuccessful National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF) Training
Recently staff at the Agile Strategy Lab, led a training on collaboration and agile strategy to the corporate executives at the National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF) and the Family Medical Care Plan (FMCP).
Read MoreAt last…! Strategic Doing training in person this summer
In-person Strategic Doing training is back! Cue the Etta James song – after a year of saying, “Is it time yet? Is it time?” we think it is, finally, time.…
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