Strategic Doing Credo
This morning on the weekly Strategic Doing talk I was reminded of the credo for Strategic Doing. It’s been exciting to me as a Strategic Doing Practitioner to watch these ideas grow. This discipline has proven effective to build collaborations quickly and achieve scale with better coherence and communication. Work has been done to form clusters, such as around water, manufacturing, and supply chain management. While practicing this discipline it helps to move from advocacy to people learning together, to innovating together, and to develop new technologies. Within it is the power to scale, replicate, and sustain complex initiatives.
As background the credo was drafted at a core team meeting of practitioners from across the U.S. who gathered at Turkey Run State Park in Indiana in October 2011. The credo was designed to guide the development and deployment of Strategic Doing.
Weekly talks are held among practitioners. It is possible to sign up for free to participate in the calls here.
From the book Strategic Doing (2019)
“For over 10 years, a small group of practitioners we call the core team has come together three to four times a year to share what we’ve learned and to explore how to improve the discipline. Indeed, we practice Strategic Doing on Strategic Doing. At one of these meetings we decided to dig a little deeper. We drafted a credo (which means “I believe” in Latin) as a simple statement of what motivates us to do this work.
We want to introduce this credo to you early, so you can understand the depth of commitment that drew us to writing this book. We believe that the obligations expressed in this credo can extend to all individuals in our society and to government, business, and nonprofit organizations:
- We believe we have a responsibility to build a prosperous, sustainable future for ourselves and future generations.
- No individual, organization, or place can build that future alone.
- Open, honest, focused, and caring collaboration among diverse participants is the path to accomplishing clear, valuable, shared outcomes.
- We believe in doing, not just talking – and in behavior in alignment with our beliefs.
For us the credo is a statement of shared values that can help us overcome the silos that weaken our creativity. It is a statement of our inescapable interdependence. (Strategic Doing, p. xxix).”
Strategic Doing Institute Credo
The Strategic Doing Institute website provides further clarification of the credo. Four beliefs drive our work:
1) We have a responsibility to build a prosperous, sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations.
2) No individual, organization, or place can build that future alone.
3) Open, honest, focused, and caring collaboration among diverse participants is the path to accomplishing clear, valuable, shared outcomes.
4) Doing must accompany talking, and our behavior must be aligned with our beliefs.