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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

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Economics 101

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

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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

December 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

December 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

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S Curves

It’s time to ditch our static view of the enterprise. Organizations are complex systems that must adapt to survive. But

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Strategic Doing and the Iceberg Model of Systems Thinking

Strategy in open networks — teams, collaborations, clusters, and ecosystems — is different. Successful network-based strategies require us to think

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Adaptive Challenges

Yesterday, a colleague asked why we don’t use the term “goals” with Strategic Doing. Instead, we focus on outcomes that

September 30, 2022

Understanding the Difference Between Goals and Outcomes

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September 5, 2022

Understanding Agility

Like many popular business concepts, “agility” is overused to the point of meaninglessness. Here’s a way to think about agility