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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.

Apr 19, 2023

Reflective Practice

Put on your boots. In this post, we are heading into the swampy lowlands of real world problems. But first,

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