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“To reach people no one else is reaching we must do things no one else is doing.” That line seems like a no-brainer. Obvious. And yet, when I heard Craig Groeschel say that at Willow’s Leadership Summit last year I scrambled to write it down and then had trouble thinking about anything else for the rest [...] How does arriving where you’ve already been sound? Depends I guess. If you like where you’ve been, you might want to go there again. After all, there are places we’ve been that we love going back to. At the same time, as a metaphor for vision…most of us are dreaming of arriving somewhere we’ve never [...] Keeping an eye on the effectiveness of strategy is essential. Clarifying what a win is and launching strategic steps designed to produce that win are essential to organizational success. Evaluating effectiveness is just as important. Have you ever slowed down long enough to evaluate whether your strategy is actually working? Most organizations never really get around [...] One of the key concepts in Roger Martin’s The Design of Business is the notion that the pursuit of reliable or predictable results keeps many organizations from the kind of exploration that pursues the next opportunity (or the more current opportunity). This is big for all of us, but to really catch the significance you [...] In developing a design-thinking toolbox, one skill that must be added is abductive thinking. First, I know. I had to add the term to my dictionary. A concept introduced by Charles Sanders Pierce in the twentieth century, here’s the idea: “It is not possible to prove any new thought, concept, or idea in advance; all new [...] I don’t know about you, but I am a sucker for a beautiful phrase. I tripped across this one while working my way through Change by Design. “A team that understands what is happening will not feel bound to take the next logical step along an ultimately unproductive path (p. 17).” What [...] One of the best things about weekends is that there is usually time to pull a new book off the stack and spend some time between the covers. And every once in a while I find one that pulls me right in and really catches my attention. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms [...] What is it that separates corporations like McDonald’s from so many others? According to Roger Martin there’s more to it than hard work. Design thinking…a kind of analysis that takes something from mystery to heuristic and then to algorithm…is the real secret. Best of all? You can learn how to do it. But first, a [...] |
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