Strategic Doing as a Design Discipline
More than any other scholar, Donald Schon’s work guided the development of Strategic Doing. Let’s dive in and explore why. Donald Schon’s view of design as a discipline of reflective practice has...
View ArticleIntroduction to Three Types of Networks
Information and knowledge drive our economy, and networks have altered the economic rules. Traditional hierarchical systems have given way to decentralized networks, enabling collaboration and...
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A Skill, a Discipline, and Relentless Practice
In the Strategic Doing Talk on Friday, I introduced the ideas of skill, discipline, and practice. To illustrate these ideas, I shared my history as a competitive swimmer. When I was a teenager, I was...
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Some Insights on How Ecosystems Form
There’s a lot of talk about ecosystems these days. Here are some thoughts based on my experience working with networks over the past thirty or so years. Insight 1: Ecosystems are invisible. That means...
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Messy Rooms and Adaptive Challenges
We go through life solving problems, but we often skip over a critical threshold question: Is this a problem we know how to solve? Or is it a challenge that we’ve never encountered before? Let’s...
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Developing University Ecosystems
University administrators are in the ecosystem business, whether they realize it or not. The industrial resource-based economy is giving way to the knowledge economy at a rapid pace. And that has...
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New Skills, New Behaviors
When no one can tell anyone else what to do, how do we come up with solutions to wicked problems? Environmental scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon wrote about this challenge in his great book The Ingenuity...
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Strategic Doing: Overcoming Analysis Paralysis
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View ArticleBuilding Our Right Questions Muscles
The shortest distance between the status quo and a future distinct from the past is working from the right questions at the right time. One of the surest ways to get or stay stuck in a status quo is...
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Second Day at CONNECTS: Thoughts & Impressions
As people kept entering the doors of the Full Circle building, I couldn’t stop but wonder if I was at the right place. Of course, I was, after all I have become part of the CONNECTS team. All my new...
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