Diagnosis – the key to a sharp strategy
If you want a sharp strategy, you must diagnose your current situation well. The best strategies I see are the ones that are elegant in their diagnosis of their current situation. Without a shared, tight, description of the challenges and opportunities you are facing, you will founder in trying to work out what to do. This […]
Understand the stories you inhabit
We make sense of our lives by understanding them as narratives. We tell ourselves and our family and friends stories about what we did, what we have become, and why. Human beings seem wired to make sense of the world through story. I suspect that one of the best ways we can think more clearly […]
The teleconference before the Challenger disaster – how the thinking shifted (Part Two)
This is part two of a post begun last week on the Challenger disaster. This post looks at the teleconference the night before the Challenger shuttle launch in 1986 and why the decision was made to launch even though the engineers were nervous. But to understand this post you need to understand about O-Rings on […]