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Teaching Young People the Art and Science of Collaboration
We are so excited about our partnership with novelist Noah Knox Marshall! Together we’ve created a set of curricular resources to help K-12 students learn the deep skills of collaboration needed to address complex technical and social challenges. The following is an excerpt from a media release announcing the partnership Noah Knox Marshall is the…
Wayfinding
We’ve been looking into the research related to “wayfinding,” the navigational symbols and language used to help people navigate unfamiliar places like city centers, airports, and hospitals. FYI, many European cities do this better that we do in the US. The big lesson learned is that a visitor does not need to know what the…
Want Your Organization to be a “Virtuoso” Performer?
At the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab we are working with virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma; and doing so is helping us better understand agility. In fact, Yo-Yo has written the forward to our new book, Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership (Wiley) available May 7, 2019. Part of what makes a great musician a…well…great musician, is their brain’s…
A Matter of Trust
We’ve been looking at the research on trust and the role it plays we are dealing with complex challenges. Here is a little nugget that we thought was particularly interesting. This comes from a foundational work that dates back to 1985. It has informed nearly all of the trust-related research done between then and now.…
Complex or Complicated?
Complex or complicated? Which term better describes what you and your community or organization is facing? Rocket science is complicated. Addressing the opioid crisis is complex. Reducing vehicle emissions by 10% is complicated. Addressing climate change is complex. Complex challenges demand new approaches to strategy and the science of collaboration becomes extremely important. That’s where…
Strategy: More like an Algorithm than a Roadmap
Perhaps you’ve seen the video of Boston Dynamics’ robot Atlas exiting their building for a walk in a snow-covered forest, “going to work” stacking boxes in a warehouse, getting up after being toppled by a human, and then leaving for the day, presumably heading out for more adventures. It is remarkable on many, many levels but the one…
Strategy Is a Team Sport
One of the theories embedded within our approach to strategy at the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab is the Law of Requisite Variety introduced by W. Ross Ashby. The idea is that a complex challenge (one with a lot of variety) requires a solution that is equally complex, a solution with a lot of variety. That’s why we focus on…
Birds of a Feather…
We watched this video today with our undergrad students to help them better understand the power of simple rules in complex systems. These birds are following three simple rules: (1) don’t get too close to each other, (2) don’t get too far from each other, and (3) head in the same direction as your neighbors.…
New Skills for K-12 Faculty
Teaching K-12 is not what it used to be. That’s especially the case for schools like the Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indiana and the Applied Technical High School in New Jersey. Both of these schools are adopting new ways of teaching students and working with community partners. That’s why they decided to bring the…
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