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Design and Agile’s Muddied Watersthelaterallens.substack.com What seems a pedantic debate to some will for others mark a deep and troubling conflict over the nature of their work. This has long been the case for Design and Agile. To take current example, design...
Strategy Workshopthelaterallens.substack.com Intro Today we’ll cover an approach I’ve used for running strategy workshops. It leverages a combination of VMOST (vision, mission, objectives, strategy, and tactics) and the North Star Framework, whi...
Design as Dialecticsthelaterallens.substack.com My friend John Cutler recently posted about teams falling in love with crafting the perfect problem statement. This can be an issue when they focus on this in lieu of generating actionable solutions. ...
Research Isn’t Icingthelaterallens.substack.com A common attitude about research is that it is a “nice-to-have”, or, even, merely “icing on the cake”. The assumption here is that research produces what are ultimately unnecessary refinements to the ...
Getting Serious About Resultsthelaterallens.substack.com It’s often said that OKRs are not any better than MBOs. I’m afraid it’s worse than that. MBO, after all, never stood for “Management by Output”. Yet whenever the KR part of OKR devolves into planned o...
Dealing with Conflict Without Dramathelaterallens.substack.com This is a concept I learned from executive coach Tom Henschel. It’s based on Difficult Conversations, by Stone, Patton, and Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Henschel uses this metaphor to enca...
How to Create a Strategy Tablethelaterallens.substack.com Intro: A Word on Decision Quality Decisions are often both the main value driver and constraint in an organization. And yet we do not tend to focus on them. The desire seems to be to keep the focus on...
Systems as Mental Interfacesthelaterallens.substack.com In today’s post we’ll be discussing Edward Martin Baker’s Scoring a Whole in One. Credit to Sean Murphy, of SKMurphy, Inc., who reached out and asked if I’d like to write something about it. I said ye...
Group Decision Foiblesthelaterallens.substack.com As individuals our reasoning is beset with biases and cognitive errors. Making decisions as a group is often no better. Yes, there are things we can do to vet each other, pool expertise, and offset er...