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A Busy Start to 2021
What a busy and exciting time the first two months of the year has been. Here’s a little bit of what we’ve been up to. We’ve launched both Strategic Doing Pilots and Strategic…
Strategic Doing for Digital Innovation in Material Handling
Digital Innovation in material handling is not a technology play. It is an organizational challenge. We are bringing a new set of tools and frameworks to manufacturing leaders to help them accelerate digital innovation in material handling.
Is Your Organization a Virtuoso Performer?
If you’ve read our book Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership I hope you read the forward. It was written by virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma and he offers some wonderful…
I Love this Town
In 2009, Jay-Z and Alisa Keys collaborated on a release entitled Empire State of Mind. In the song Jay-Z raps about Brooklyn, Tribeca, and Harlem as Key’s belts the lyrics…
Are you setting “zesty” goals?
We really like this thinking from Ron Ashkenas. He urges leaders to set “zesty goals.” These are goals that are short term, high priority, and challenging – goals for which…
Partnership with the Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program
We are so excited to announce that in 2021 we will be partnering with the Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program to offer leadership and communication training to…
Maintaining Psychological Safety Under Pressure
We like these thoughts from Shane Haste on how leaders can avoid falling into the “dark side” when the pressure is on. Letting psychological safety get pushed to the side,…
Picking Out a Frame
Wood or metal? Classic or contemporary? Statement-making thick or barely there minimalist? There are a lot of choices when picking out a picture frame, not to mention choosing a mat…
The Art of Gathering
One of our first reads of the new year is The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker. Like you, we ask people to…
The AEM Cube
We live in a fast-changing world requiring both organizations and individuals to be agile. Thankfully, adapting to changing environments is part of human nature. People are also inherently curious and…
