Category: Facilitation

The Problem-Solving Process That Prevents Groupthink
The Implications Wheel promotes "divergent" thinking while the Strategy Matrix is designed for "convergent" thinking. This article documents the importance of knowing the differences. Article Link ...

5 Steps to Creating a Truly Collaborative Work Environment
An excellent set of factors that fits perfectly with our beliefs for running explorations with the Strategic Exploration Tools ...

Dispel Your Team’s Fear of Data
Most people are uncomfortable with data. Estimates, analytics, and data-driven predictions — they can all be confusing and overwhelming. Some of this discomfort is based on experience. Everyone remembers a ...

Leadership Involves Mastery of “Initiative Conversations”
http://customerthink.com/leadership-involves-mastery-of-initiative-conversations/ The Strategic Exploration Tools certainly involve conversations about the future. The interesting connection here is the move "starting action." ...

Are you ready to decide?
Good managers—even great ones—can make spectacularly bad choices. Some of them result from bad luck or poor timing, but a large body of research suggests that many are caused by ...

For Many Decisions, Just Go with the Flow
This is a good tie to the role of "intuition." Joel recognizes this as a very important early part of the process of ideas flowing through paradigms to reality -- ...

Exploring the Same “Arc”
What happens if multiple teams explore the same particular “arc” (or first-order implication)? Consistent with our “scouting metaphor,” if we send good scouts out over the same territory, they’re likely ...

Why Reading On A Screen Is Bad For Critical Thinking
As we continue to explore both the "paper-based" and software supported versions of the Implications Wheel -- this article raises some very thoughtful points from a "critical thinking" perspective. Article ...

Some Very Good “Center” Examples
Rise of the Machines From Michael Jackson's "Shaping Tomorrow" Newsletter: An outstanding example of describing a "center" with details -- and some good "first-order" implications. 17 February 2015 Many jobs ...

Three Strategic Voices to Include on Your Team
We’ve discussed the value of having three different strategic thinking perspectives in any strategy work. These three strategic thinking perspectives include people with front-line experience, others with functional expertise, and ...