"What Can You Use a Screwdriver for?"

JP Castlin is our first-ever "repeat offender" and in this episode, we preview a conclusion of our Experimental Season. We started with JP in our first interview episode, and it's fitting to discuss with JP what have we learnt, in the final interview of the season.

JP Talks about robustness versus resilience, strategic drift, why it's imperative to experiment on the edges and try and create new revenue streams, how tough it is to manage children using fun objectives and why boundaries are a must, and the very many uses of a Kaufmann screwdriver.

Next week, we'll provide a Season Finale where we wrap everything up and address some of your Questions.

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Contents

• Introduction [00:00]
• On Naturalized Strategy-Making: ABCDE Framework [07:20]
• On Coherent Hypotheses and How to Get Them [11:55]
• On Crisis Management, NZ COVID Response, Moving Through Domains From Chaos to Order, Entrenched Place Dilemma and Brittle Organization and Revenue Stream Substitution, Adaptive Strategies and E-Commerce [15:30]
• More on Adaptive Strategy, Pivots, and E-Commerce [31:52]
• On Predictable Mutations [42:22]
• On Certainty and Uncertainty, Expecting What Could Be, WFH and More on Entrenched Place Dilemma, Resilience, Robustness, and Multiple Revenue Streams With Parallel Safe-to-Fail Experimentation [48:02]
• More on Working From Home, People, Culture, and Employee Representation [53:58]
• On Humanizing Businesspeople and Its Relation to Decision Making [59:09]
• On When Is a Pandemic not a Pandemic, More on Flexible Time and Final on Working From Home [1:07:40]
• On Theory-Informed Practice and Pre-Mortems: How to Put Praxis in "Theory and Praxis" [1:16:27]
• Some on Screwdrivers, More on Robustness versus Resilience, Repeated Betting Over Time, Strategic Drift, and Porsches [1:22:05]
• ABCDE: Aspirations, Boundaries, Coherence, and the Other Two [1:40:47]

Links

• Full transcript on Business Games Premium
• Woolworths launches new 'Basics Box' grocery delivery amid COVID-19 crisis in March 2020 and also a NZ trial version of something similar in April 2020: Covid-19 coronavirus: New World supermarket trialling essential food box sales

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