Strategic Doing and Appreciative Inquiry
Strategic Doing and Appreciative Inquiry
Strategic Doing is a proven discipline for managing collaborations of loosely-connected networks.
We know many of the changes to make to tackle climate change and create a more sustainable future - the sort of future that fits into the doughnut.
Within many fields, experts know what we need to do within their sphere of action.
The questions they can’t answer are: How do we get there? How do we bring all the different experts and their proposals and get people moving in the same direction? How do we bring enough people along with us?
I’ve long had that same issue with Shady Lanes. How do I turn passive support into action? How do I get diverse people to connect and collaborate so they can do more together than individual efforts will ever achieve?
Then I came across Ed Morrison and Strategic Doing.
Strategic Doing combines academic rigour with practice (doing) to create methods that enable loose networks of people in organisations and communities to come together to tackle complex, wicked problems.
At the core of Strategic Doing is appreciative questions and managing conversations. We move in the direction of our conversations.
Find out more:
Read this post about Appreciative Inquiry on the Strategic Doing Institute website
Read the book - at a bookshop or library near you
Read Ed Morrison’s PHD Thesis: Strategic Doing: A Strategy Model for Open Networks
See how I incorporate Strategic Doing practices with groups on Shady Lanes
Watch this video about how questions shape our conversations
The Beginning of a Journey
Strategic Doing isn’t something you learn once and apply a formula. It’s more like the beginning of a journey where you are always learning and experimenting and innovating.
We move in the direction of our conversations. Let’s move towards the doughnut.