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Apr 11, 2023

Appreciative Inquiry: How Framing Questions Generate Momentum

Using a framing question to guide our work is a cornerstone of the Strategic Doing discipline. The transformation of hearts

Apr 3, 2023

S-Curves, Again

My mentor David Morgenthaler (https://bit.ly/35yq0e1), taught me the importance of seeing the world with S curves. It’s a shorthand version

Mar 20, 2023

Heuristics from Developing Ecosystems

We can’t manage ecosystems, but we can design and guide them. To do that, we need new management frameworks and

Mar 15, 2023

Loose Hierarchies

MIT professor Thomas Malone wrote an important book, The Future of Work, nearly two decades ago. In it, he introduced

Feb 20, 2023

Collaboration is a process

Collaboration is a process that results in the emergence of novel solutions to wicked problems and mutual benefits for the

Feb 8, 2023

Building collaboration in disaster recovery efforts

Building collaboration in the aftermath of a natural disaster is challenging (an understatement if there ever was one). In the

Jan 24, 2023

Economics 101

For years, our thinking about our economy has been hopelessly simplistic — the basic idea is that the forces of

Jan 9, 2023

Aligning Technical and Social Systems with Strategic Doing

The US is good at invention but not very good at implementation. We have generated a boatload of Nobel prizes

Dec 20, 2022

Strategy in Turbulent Environments

Strategy in turbulent environments is different from conventional strategic planning. Traditional approaches are too expensive to formulate, too challenging to

Dec 4, 2022

Narrowing Our Ingenuity Gap With Innovating Networks

Our ingenuity gap continues to grow. Our inability to design and guide “innovating networks” has led to the gap. But