Image via Wikipedia To capture our discussion from our Post Instructional Conference about what officers would miss if they don’t come here: 1. Deep deliberate looks into complexity with a team. Discussion: It’s too easy for distance learning and virtual teams to treat planning and problem solving as transactions of a couple hours and a […]
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Persistence vs Reframing
Image via Wikipedia I was thinking about the tension that I see between persistence and reframing. A lot of our formal management and leadership education suggests that we should continue to work our way through and around obstacles along the way in order to get to our objectives. Traditional problem-solving tells us that the path […]
Management games for deep insight
Peter Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) describes the use of models to help us frame questions to ask of the world, and which help us become explicit about our world views, assumptions, frames of reference, theories of cause and effect, values, and desired outcomes. Checkland, P. (2006) Learning for action: A short definitive account of […]
National Futsal tournament in Kansas City: Day 1 lessons
Well, the 2 Saturday games are over and we walked into a buzzsaw 😀 The first team was a travel team from Dallas that just finished winning a Disney sponsored 3v3 national tournament. 11-0 was the final, but we had long stretches where we played them even. The 2d game was against the best Division […]
A reflection on Problem-solving vs Decision-making
I see an important distinction between problem-solving as a method and decision making as a process. I see problem solving as an important component of decision-making but I see this distinction: decision-making seems to be the ultimate act of convergent thinking as a prelude to action. I see problem-solving as an analytical or intuitive process […]