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Sep 18, 2023

What’s Your Lego?

Modularity enables small things to grow into large things. Solar cells become solar arrays that become solar power stations. Modularity

Sep 14, 2023

Collaboration: An Infinite Game

A deep transformation is taking place across every organization, every region, every economy. It’s a shift from closed, linear hierarchical

Sep 13, 2023

Facing a Wicked Problem? Impose Constraints

Yesterday, I spent part of the day coaching an ecosystem builder in Greenville on designing a very early-stage approach —

Sep 12, 2023

Car Talk: A Master Class In Either/Or Thinking

Years ago, when I was living in Cambridge, MA, I was a big fan of Ray and Tom Magliozzi, two

Sep 11, 2023

A Brief Overview of Strategic Doing

Strategic Doing – a peer-reviewed, scientifically grounded practice — teaches the discipline of collaboration and strategy in open networks. The

Aug 30, 2023

Complexity Thinking. What is it?

There are many ideas and no clear consensus. Here’s how I have used the framework as a practitioner for over

Jul 6, 2023

Moving from “Command and Control” to “Design and Do”

One mistake that we humans make is that we think we have time. Well, we don’t. Not really. For example,

May 30, 2023

Forming New Ecosystems

Over the past months, I’ve been coaching #strategicdoing practitioners as they design and guide the formation of new ecosystems. These ecosystems generate

May 18, 2023

GUIDING COMPLEX CHANGE WITH PERFORMANCE

My colleague Scott Hutcheson reminds me of our work at Purdue University. In 2005, Scott invited me to come to Purdue to work

May 9, 2023

Modularity

The secret to going big is something really small: a module. Modularity enables small things to grow into large things.