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
Category: Facilitation
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 time when their data was simply wrong, a prediction was …
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 cognitive and behavioral biases. Article Link
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 — “The Possibilities Cone” Article Link
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 to discover the different important elements, particularly if the topic …
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 Link
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 will be automated-away while new, human-only jobs will grow dramatically …
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 innovative thinkers that look at opportunities and challenges in new and different …
Tactics for Asking Good Follow-Up Questions
Ask about the implications of their answer. When people answer a question without being particularly revealing, or by giving a very safe answer, what do you do? For instance, when asked about greatest weakness, someone says, “I’m a perfectionist” or …