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Essays on business wargaming, business simulation and how leaders build judgment before the decision is real.
Business wargaming
Business wargaming: a practical guide (with template)
How to run a business war game step by step, with a worked example from the Halyard simulation and a free one-page template to download.
Innovation
Innovation theater and the decision nobody rehearses
Most innovation labs report ideas submitted and hackathons run, and almost never a venture they stopped. Why the hardest call in corporate innovation is a decision about people, and why so few leaders get to practise it.
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Business wargaming
Hackathon, design sprint, accelerator, venture studio or wargame: what each one tests
Innovation formats are usually compared on cost and duration. A more useful comparison is the question each one answers, and the one most of them leave open: what happens when people react to the decision.
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Experiencing to Learn
The case for simulated consequences
We learn best through experience, not slides. Why simulations with real consequences build the judgment that training programmes can't.
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