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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…
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My colleague Scott Hutcheson reminds me of our work at Purdue University. In 2005, Scott invited me to come to Purdue to work…
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The secret to going big is something really small: a module. Modularity enables small things to grow into large things.…
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Put on your boots. In this post, we are heading into the swampy lowlands of real world problems. But first,…
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Using a framing question to guide our work is a cornerstone of the Strategic Doing discipline. The transformation of hearts…
Read MoreS-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…
Read MoreHeuristics from Developing Ecosystems
We can’t manage ecosystems, but we can design and guide them. To do that, we need new management frameworks and…
Read MoreLoose Hierarchies
MIT professor Thomas Malone wrote an important book, The Future of Work, nearly two decades ago. In it, he introduced…
Read MoreCollaboration is a process
Collaboration is a process that results in the emergence of novel solutions to wicked problems and mutual benefits for the…
Read MoreBuilding 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…
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