June 21, 2024
Second Day at CONNECTS: Thoughts & Impressions
As people kept entering the doors of the Full Circle building, I couldn’t stop but wonder if I was at
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June 2, 2024
Building Our Right Questions Muscles
The shortest distance between the status quo and a future distinct from the past is working from the right questions
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May 20, 2024
Strategic Doing: Overcoming Analysis Paralysis
We’ve all been there—stuck in endless brainstorming sessions, debating possibilities, and never quite reaching a decision. Ideas abound but progress
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May 6, 2024
New Skills, New Behaviors
When no one can tell anyone else what to do, how do we come up with solutions to wicked problems?
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April 11, 2024
Developing University Ecosystems
University administrators are in the ecosystem business, whether they realize it or not. The industrial resource-based economy is giving way
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March 27, 2024
Messy Rooms and Adaptive Challenges
We go through life solving problems, but we often skip over a critical threshold question: Is this a problem we
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March 7, 2024
Some Insights on How Ecosystems Form
There’s a lot of talk about ecosystems these days. Here are some thoughts based on my experience working with networks
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March 2, 2024
A Skill, a Discipline, and Relentless Practice
In the Strategic Doing Talk on Friday, I introduced the ideas of skill, discipline, and practice. To illustrate these ideas,
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February 26, 2024
Introduction to Three Types of Networks
Information and knowledge drive our economy, and networks have altered the economic rules. Traditional hierarchical systems have given way to
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February 22, 2024
Strategic Doing as a Design Discipline
More than any other scholar, Donald Schon’s work guided the development of Strategic Doing. Let’s dive in and explore why.
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