Category: Strategic Exploration Tools

By not acting now, we’re allowing the future costs of the greenhouse-gas crisis to compound. Eventually, the consequences will be irreversible. Article Link That job is made even harder because ...

"Where's Waldo?"  Oops!  Should be "Where's the Center?"  Seems like a lot of very good centers worthy of exploration here. Article Link ...

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 -- ...

There's a lot of attention being paid to the lack of long-term thinking.  All of Joel's Strategic Exploration Tools address these concerns -- the recent articles I've posted here are ...

Very interesting post! Using the Internet is an easy way to feel omniscient. Enter a search term and the answers appear before your eyes. But at any moment you're also ...

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 ...

What will it take to shift markets and companies away from a short-term way of thinking? Article Link ...

A recommendation from a participant in our "paper-based" facilitator training. I watched the movie a few times -- and the following comments are spot-on! I just saw The Imitation Game ...

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 ...

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 ...