Insights: Why Strategic Doing Beats Strategic Planning
A few weeks ago, I had a great conversation with Aga Bajer, of Culture Lab. In this interview, Aga and I discuss:
- The value of practice and discipline versus skimming the surface of things
- The need to slow down before going fast
- The benefits of creating a safe space for deep, focused conversations
- How power and hierarchy can stand in the way of collaboration
- What adaptive challenges are and why they require a platform where people can come together as equals to solve them
- How to frame a strategic conversation around opportunities rather than problems and what is the structure of framing questions
- The value of engaging people around what an ideal solution would look like
- The importance of thinking about what company you want to pass on to the next generations
- Culture as a set pattern of thinking, behaving and doing
The Director of the Lab at UNA and co-author of Strategic Doing: 10 Skills for Agile Leadership, Ed’s work has focused on developing new models of strategy specifically designed to accelerate complex collaboration in networks and open innovation. He is the original developer of Strategic Doing.