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Sensemaking: Turning What We Know Into What Must Be.

When Columbus set out to discover America, he didn’t have a map that had America on it. That was the whole point of discovering it. Centuries ago people were sailing the world with incomplete maps. Some knew that the earth was a sphere. A globe. A ball. A round thing. Some maps were created representing …

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Boundaries. How Do You Know You Are Part Of A Group?

How do yo know you are part of a group? And how do you know who are the other group members? This seems like an obvious question. “Well. When you are assigned to the group.” “By looking at the organizational chart.” Really? That’s it? Forget formal declarations about authority, responsibility and who will pay your …

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Signpost Maps. Talking About Decisions During Your Big Adventure.

One of the essential conversations within projects is The Talk About Decisions. This is where you sit down with your sponsor and say: “Listen, son. We need to make decisions. Choices. Have to make them. Hear me?!” Or something more appropriate. Before you grasp for your “10 Dimensional Decision Grid From Techno Heaven“, take a …

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Bootstrapping Culture Without Freaking People Out.

Our tour guide sat in front of the bus. Every day for the duration of our trip through Eastern Turkey. That bus was our home for a month. If have been in plenty of buses before. And there wasn’t anything special this time. Except. The tour guide drew maps on the windows. She would tell …