Strategic Doing

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Strategic Doing for Faith Communities

At the heart of the Strategic Doing discipline is connection – how we connect with one another so that we can think and do together. When we connect we are able…

Strategic Diversity

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Strategy, growth, and innovation are team sports, not solo ventures. Complex undertakings like these require a variety of ideas, mindsets, and areas of expertise to achieve results. This required variety…

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Agile Leadership

Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges – challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single entity. Today’s leaders…

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Strategic Doing

Strategy, as an organizational discipline, got its real start with the military – the term comes from a Greek word meaning “generalship.”  Fast forward a few millennia, and we know…

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Strategy: Map or App?

I’ve been in London part of this week for business. The first time I visited was in 1998. Navigating the city was much different back then compared to now. You…

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We Don’t Care What It Says On Your Business Card

Picture this scene. There’s a wicked problem that needs addressing and you’ve been invited to a meeting to consider a set of responses. As everyone gets settled, the organizer requests,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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)…