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I create transformative learning spaces that inspire collaboration and guide organizations and leaders to unlock their potential, spark imagination, navigate complexity, and shape better futures.
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The kernel of a strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Diagnosis is the starting point in creating a strategy.
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
Foresight tools - McGuinness Institute
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Clients come to experts with challenges that they can’t solve. They’ve picked all the low-hanging fruit and it’ll take a ladder to get the rest. Or they’ve eaten everything on the plate except the vegetables and it’s going to be a slog to get through the rest of the meal.
David C. Baker, Emily Mills, • Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
While experience is useful, scenario analysis is one of an architect’s most powerful tools to allow iterative design without building whole systems. By modeling likely scenarios, an architect can discover if a particular solution will, in fact, work well.
Neal Ford • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Simple or tame problems are clear – they have a solution which may be difficult to find, but it exists. Complicated problems are those with many variables which potentially have more than one right answer, but technically and with enough computing power, you could probably solve these too.