5 Core Awareness Processes

As I was browsing a book today, Mastering Turbulence by McCann and Selsky, they were discussing when learning fails as a result of our normal methods being overwhelmed by constant change. They offered a replacement model based on five awareness processes: Scanning: Searching the environment for information to detect stage and saliency of ideas, events, Read More …

How to Think Simple

Is there a way that I can get started and gear myself towards thinking that way and trying to simplify things? – jd Don Sull: Absolutely, I mean my advice would be to try it. I’ll just give you a concrete example. I’ve used simple rules many times in my life but I’ll give you Read More …

Solving Complexity with Simplicity

Dr. Donald Sull  is a Senior Lecturer in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches courses on Competitive Strategy and Strategy Execution in Volatile Markets. His recent book, Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World offers some great thoughts on reducing complexity. Download Read More …

Three Ways of Setting Simple Rules

A global expert on strategy and execution in turbulent markets, Dr. Donald Sull  is a Senior Lecturer in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches courses on Competitive Strategy and Strategy Execution in Volatile Markets. His recent book, Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Read More …

Software and Product Development Leads into HR?

The founder of OdBox, Matt Barcomb, partners with organizations to help leadership teams develop and deploy strategy, optimize product management and development, and evolve traditional HR functions into modern talent development practices. Matt can be found on LinkedIn or on Twitter. Related podcast and transcription: Matt Barcomb’s Journey into Lean Software An excerpt from the Read More …

Can Arguments Help in Collaboration?

Joe:   Can argument mapping help in collaboration? Timo:   Yes, a lot of us are working — as teacher’s we are working with groups of students, and they built together some argument around an issue. Argument mapping does when you present it with a beamer on a screen or something like that, it makes it possible Read More …