Strategic Doing Blog
While we await the publishing of Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership, it seems a good time to re-cap the best books we read last year. Ed Morrison (the developer of Strategic Doing) picks a few every month to recommend in our monthly newsletter; here they all are in one place: The New Education: […]
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The developer of Strategic Doing, Ed Morrison, has been urged many times over the years to write a book about Strategic Doing. There have been a few starts made at it, but it wasn’t until we started teaching the discipline that the organization of such a book became clear. A team coalesced to take on […]
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After many, many emails from people asking “when can I get the book?” today marks an official milestone of sorts…we’ll officially begin encouraging pre-orders one week from today. Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership will give Strategic Doing a much broader platform to help people understand how they can confront complex challenges in their […]
Read MoreUniversities can develop two distinct, overlapping ecosystems: one targets at start-ups; the second focuses on innovative companies. To date, most universities concentrate on the first, less so on the second. But a stronger innovation ecosystem creates near term opportunities to expand the university research base. We are currently working on several projects to strengthen innovation […]
Read MoreWith Strategic Doing, we teach the multiple skills of complex collaboration with simulation games. Every organization is facing complex, wicked challenges. We are unprepared. Traditional management practices do not work well. We do not yet have the skills or the light weight collaborative processes we need to do deep, shared, strategic thinking quickly. Customized strategy […]
Read MoreStrategy is dynamic. Different business units — positioned at different locations on the S-Curve — will face different strategic challenges. The implication is profound: a one-size fits all, top-down strategy process (traditional strategic planning) will not be the most productive approach to maximizing a return on assets. In too many cases, corporations are driving toward […]
Read MoreWe’ve grown up with a mechanical worldview that is now getting in the way of our ability to adapt and survive. With this mechanical mindset, we think of the world as a machine. We can analyze facts and execute plans toward a predictable future. We can measure and control outcomes. Traditional strategic planning embodies this […]
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If you’ve been to a Strategic Doing workshop, you’ve seen an hourglass on each page of the Action Pack, with the number of minutes to be spent on each page alongside it. Those time guidelines can feel quite compressed. There’s usually at least one person who leaves a comment in the evaluation that says, “Too […]
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Have you been as awe-struck at the images coming from NASA’s Mars InSight lander as we have? The NASA mission to Mars hit a major milestone this week: an unmanned spacecraft made a perfect landing 300 million miles from its starting point on planet Earth – after almost ten years of planning (the original proposals […]
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We’re excited to announce the newest Strategic Doing affiliate: Mississippi State University. The Stennis Institute hosts the Strategic Doing activity at the university. Founded in 1976, the Stennis Institute works alongside local, regional, and state leaders to help build stronger, more resilient communities and regions. The Institute’s work enhances the capacity of state and local leaders […]
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