strategy as facilitation
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:
“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”
Leadership in the ecosystem age
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archive.phThe strategist of tomorrow won't be the smartest person in the room. They'll be the person who knows how to shape the room. And that room will include machines.
zoe scaman • The Work
Strategy isn't about applying frameworks in isolation. It's about reading the room, the rhythm, the reality.
Too often, strategists are trained to seek tidy answers – grids, ladders, funnels, stages. But culture doesn't move in straight lines. It swells, fractures, loops, contradicts itself.
Fieldcraft acknowledges this. It repositions the strategist
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For too long, we've treated strategy like a board game: static pieces on a flat surface, governed by logic and turn-taking.
But the real world isn't orderly. It's dynamic. Interdependent. Shaped by weather, mood, emotion, timing, attention, trust.