Master the Craft of Strategic Steerage
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Wayfinding through Uncertainty & Complexity
🧭 The Craft of Strategic Steerage
Craft (Greek: téckhnē), art, skill, making, doing
Strategy (Greek: stratēgia), generalship of grand design
Steer (Greek: kubernáo), to guide, pilot, govern
Role: Board Director or Advisor
Struggling to Make a Strategic Impact?
- Focusing on operational vs. strategic Issues?
- Declaring vs. asking?
- Making decisions on tacit cognitive biases?
- Fashioning organizational sense-making alone?
- Ignoring previous patterns in new contexts?
- Forgetting to add exploration to the analysis?
- Grappling with facilitation and persuasion?
Environment: Dynamic Complexity
Struggling to Steer through Uncertainty & Complexity?
- Focused on discrete models vs systems?
- Using linear frameworks for every process?
- Implementing rigid hierarchical structures?
- Overlooking feedback loops & iterative changes?
- Ignoring interdependencies within a system?
- Disregarding patterns & emergent behaviors?
- Underestimating the role of informal networks?
🧭 Improve Wayfinding with
Reflections, Principles, & Research on
the Craft of Strategic Steerage
Transition Practices
Master perspective changes from operational to strategic orientation.
Scale with Resiliency
Master decisions facing uncertainty through all of the business life cycles.
Guide within Complexity
Master wayfinding within a complex adaptive environment.
Take the journey from novice to mastery in individual board & advisory practice, strategically impacting those served.
Become a Wayfinder.
Master the Craft of Strategic Steerage and Guide a Business through Uncertainty & Complexity.
- Gain confidence in maneuvering within different environments of prediction, risk, and uncertainty.
- Develop a facility working with systems elements: agents, relationships, dynamics, & emergence,
- Leverage functional and industry experience that is apt for the situation.
- Augment data analysis with creativity and behavior.
- Refine communications to enhance human dialogue, learning, and persuasion.
- Adopt a consistent strategic perspective in all of the steerage practices.
- Assimilate skills in exploratory questioning
- Acquire proficiency with creative decision-making in a group context
- Attain competence in inter-subjective sense-making and alignment.
- Achieve performance competency that includes integrity, humility, and respect for others.
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Welcome Journey Companions
My name is Don Springer, and I help board directors and advisors master their Craft of Strategic Steerage for improved skill, greater confidence, and meaningful impact.
This allows them to guide an organization to create growth, resiliency, and stakeholder trust in an environment of uncertainty and complexity.
This site aims to share relevant and actionable reflections, principles, and research so that leaders can learn to guide a business through uncertainty and complexity, whether as individual advisors, advisory board members, or board directors.
Let me join you in leveraging your capabilities and resources while improving your ability to steer an organization for more significant personal and stakeholder impact.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful
Margaret J. Wheatley
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