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Strategy: Myths, fantasies, and reality

August 7, 2018August 15, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 155 Views adaptive strategy, business, complexity, organizations, strategic intent, strategy

A defining feature of sustained excellence in any enterprise is a good strategy — a vision and plan linked to

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Smart goals or better systems?

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 230 Views adaptive strategy, creativity, decision making, evaluation, goals, impact, innovation, measurement, organizational design, organizational development, performance measurement, program evaluation, social change, systems thinking

If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —

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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 133 Views adaptive strategy, attractor, backbone organization, behaviour change, change, collective impact, complexity, flashlight, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, innovation, psychology, resilience, risk, risk mitigation, simple rules, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, strategy, streetlight effect

Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need

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Acting on Failure or Failure to Act?

April 8, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 125 Views Acumen Fund, adaptive strategy, Amazon, Anders Ericsson, Apple, Ashoka, Cognitive Edge, complexity, developmental evaluation, evaluation, failure, Harvard Business Review, innovation, learning, Malcolm Gladwell, mindfulness, organizational change, organizational learning, social innovation, strategy

Who would have thought that failure would be held up as something to be desired just a few years ago?

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