Sense-Making & Decision Making
Strategies for making sense of complex situations and improving decision quality
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Use the Cynefin Framework for Context Assessment
🎯 Goal:
Correctly identify the nature of your situation before acting
📦 Deliverables:
- Situation assessment matrix (Simple/Complicated/Complex/Chaotic)
- Decision protocol for each domain
- Team workshop materials for domain classification
⚡ Actions:
- Map current challenges to Cynefin domains
- Match leadership style to domain
- Create 'safe-to-fail' experiments for complex situations
Implement Narrative-Based Sense-Making
🎯 Goal:
Gather and analyze stories to understand organizational patterns
📦 Deliverables:
- Story collection framework
- Narrative analysis template
- Pattern identification report
⚡ Actions:
- Collect micro-narratives from stakeholders
- Identify emergent patterns
- Use SenseMaker® for quantitative narrative analysis
AI & Cognitive Technology
Strategies for integrating AI while preserving human cognitive capabilities
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Cognitive Augmentation, Not Replacement
🎯 Goal:
Use AI to enhance human capabilities without creating dependency
📦 Deliverables:
- AI integration policy
- Cognitive skills preservation plan
- Human-AI collaboration protocols
⚡ Actions:
- Identify tasks where AI aids vs. replaces thinking
- Maintain manual skill practice alongside AI tools
- Design workflows that preserve cognitive engagement
Neurodiversity-Inclusive AI Strategy
🎯 Goal:
Leverage AI to unlock potential in neurodiverse team members
📦 Deliverables:
- Inclusive AI tools assessment
- Translation support protocols
- Cognitive accessibility guidelines
⚡ Actions:
- Identify translational constraints in team
- Deploy AI as translation layer for neurodiverse thinkers
- Measure output quality vs. cognitive effort
Knowledge Management
Strategies for capturing, sharing, and leveraging organizational knowledge
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Map Before You Manage
🎯 Goal:
Understand knowledge flows before implementing KM systems
📦 Deliverables:
- Knowledge flow map
- Expertise directory
- Knowledge gap analysis
⚡ Actions:
- Identify critical knowledge holders
- Map knowledge transfer pathways
- Create safe spaces for knowledge sharing
Exaptive Knowledge Networks
🎯 Goal:
Create connections that enable novel applications of existing knowledge
📦 Deliverables:
- Cross-domain connection map
- Innovation catalyst workshops
- Knowledge recombination protocols
⚡ Actions:
- Identify knowledge from unrelated domains
- Create cross-functional exploration sessions
- Document unexpected knowledge applications
Leadership in Complexity
Strategies for leading effectively in complex, uncertain environments
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Distributed Cognition Leadership
🎯 Goal:
Leverage collective intelligence rather than individual genius
📦 Deliverables:
- Team cognitive diversity assessment
- Distributed decision-making framework
- Collective intelligence protocols
⚡ Actions:
- Assess cognitive diversity in teams
- Create safe-to-fail experiment culture
- Enable decision-making at appropriate levels
Wayfinding Over Way-Shaping
🎯 Goal:
Navigate emergence rather than trying to control outcomes
📦 Deliverables:
- Emergence detection system
- Adaptive strategy templates
- Probe-sense-respond protocols
⚡ Actions:
- Run multiple small experiments
- Monitor for emergent patterns
- Amplify positive patterns, dampen negative ones
Estuarine Mapping & Strategy
Strategies for mapping organizational landscapes and energy allocation
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Estuarine Mapping for Strategic Clarity
🎯 Goal:
Understand the organizational landscape and where to invest energy
📦 Deliverables:
- Estuarine map of organizational context
- Energy allocation framework
- Constraint identification report
⚡ Actions:
- Map the four key landscapes (valley, mountain, river, coast)
- Identify constraints and affordances
- Allocate resources to highest-impact areas
Constraint-Based Strategy
🎯 Goal:
Work with constraints rather than fighting them
📦 Deliverables:
- Constraint taxonomy
- Governing vs. enabling constraint inventory
- Strategy-to-constraint alignment matrix
⚡ Actions:
- Classify constraints as governing or enabling
- Identify which constraints can be shifted
- Design strategies that leverage existing constraints
Narrative & Organizational Culture
Strategies for using narrative to shape and understand culture
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Narrative Pattern Analysis
🎯 Goal:
Understand organizational culture through story patterns
📦 Deliverables:
- Narrative pattern report
- Cultural archetype inventory
- Story-based change interventions
⚡ Actions:
- Collect organizational stories
- Identify recurring patterns and archetypes
- Design interventions that shift narrative patterns
Safe-to-Fail Narrative Experiments
🎯 Goal:
Test cultural shifts through small narrative interventions
📦 Deliverables:
- Experiment design templates
- Success/failure criteria
- Learning capture framework
⚡ Actions:
- Design small narrative experiments
- Run parallel experiments
- Capture learning from both success and failure