Here, you can download notes or transcripts for the videos on the channel Re-thinking Strategic Thinking:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_kVTQrSTvUHfmFkGuvik_Q [The channel url]

Who are you, John?

Thinking Strategically Series:

The original, rather long video has been edited into 3 bits.

The pdf link for the bits is from the text, the video from the graphic….

Bit 1: Welcome, how is it that strategic thinking, “as taught” is so impoverished? A rapid history of the models used….. The Poverty of Porter and economic thinking: [pdf]

Bit 2: Introducing the work of Hamel and Prahalad, a reframe, a shift of attention [pdf]

Bit 3: The shift…… from mapping and designing to dwelling [pdf]

Strategic Thinking as Seeing

I came across Strategic Thinking as Seeing in “Strategy Bites Back” [2005, Prentice Hall]

Re-thinking strategic thinking in 6 bits Series:

Bit 1: Re-thinking Strategic Thinking, in 6 bits – bit 1: Impacts of how we think and theory we use, bit 1 [pdf] and [video]

Bit 2: Re-thinking Strategic Thinking, in 6 bits – bit 2: Knowledge and tacit knowledge – how we do stuff [pdf] and [video]

Bit 3: Re-thinking Strategic Thinking, in 6 bits – bit 3: Introducing modalities of knowledge [pdf] and [video]

Bit 4: Re-thinking Strategic Thinking in 6 bits – bit 4: The impact of our view of knowledge on strategy thinking and process [pdf] and [video]

Bit 5: Re-thinking Strategic Thinking in 6 bits – bit 5: Introducing the autopoietic modality of
“knowledge”: how drastically our ideas are transformed [pdf] and [video]

Bit 6: Re-thinking Strategic Thinking in 6 bits – bit 6: The impact of the autopoietic modality
on strategy thinking and process [pdf] and [video]

The “What if” series… “What if Gregory Bateson taught business strategy”

“What if part 1”... In the business school, we, I even, taught a lot of stuff which was supposedly good practice. And yet you can’t help but walk away from that thinking it’s wrong….

“What if part 2”: “strategy cannot be taught in class – can it be learnt? Leads to tensions with other academics and befuddles some student expectations”

“What if part 3” Errors in thinking

“What if part 4” Knowledge Management? You got to be joking… This argues it is about the process of knowing how to…. not some theory of what to do

“What if part 5” Bateson would be concerned that we build accurate, “as it does work” business models…

“What if Gregory Bateson had taught business strategy Part 6?” Bateson would be posing questions and anticipating student learning from their inquiry process and from their responses. So, here we have bull ring, as called by Steve, and ball ring, as called by me. An example of powerful experiential learning