...write-up is being constructed...these are rough notes...will be weaved in soon and published again...
In the last eight years of reflections and meditations and connecting with diverse thinkers, i have been able to develop a few tools for helping me navigate various situation.
One such tool is to look at a word that i have been using for a long long time. And then stop and keep looking at it. Write it down. Close eyes and bring imagery around it or sheer spelling. Say it audibly louder to my own self.
And then attach a few question (devices) to see what happens to the word?
Imagine the word is "strategy".
Then attaching question devices:
What strategy?
Where strategy?
When strategy?
Who strategy?
Why strategy?
How strategy?
The idea is to stay with the question and not jump at the answer.
Some answers may arise and they can be noted as answers-in-progress and not final answers.
Then look at some other tools,
Does a newborn baby have a strategy?
Does a one month baby have a strategy?
Does one year old have strategy?
Does 10 year old have strategy?
What are similarities and differences in these strategies?
The idea is to stay with the question and not jump at the answer.
Some answers may arise and they can be noted as answers-in-progress and not final answers.
Then look at some other tools:
Does matter have strategy?
Do plants have strategy?
Do animals have strategy?
Does a patient in vegetative state have strategy?
The idea is to stay with the question and not jump at the answer.
Some answers may arise and they can be noted as answers-in-progress and not final answers.
The look at some other tools.
Are there places where strategies don't apply? (Example: On the planet of Mars, on 19 degrees North and 72 degrees East, what strategy do we need to have for building a Parliament Building?....we don't make strategies for places that are currently not apprehended and human-occupied yet).
Are there times when strategies don't apply? (example...you do not make strategy for undoing India's Freedom Struggle. However historian and other disciplines can have counterfactual approaches and different scenario outcomes)
It helps deeply to develop a practice of having deep insight meditations and co-sensing and co-discovering with a committed group to deeper reality.
The word and concept of strategy have been defined differently by different thinkers on Wikipedia.
Henry Mintzberg from McGill University defined strategy as a pattern in a stream of decisions to contrast with a view of strategy as planning, while Henrik von Scheel defines the essence of strategy as the activities to deliver a unique mix of value – choosing to perform activities differently or to perform different activities than rivals. while Max McKeown (2011) argues that "strategy is about shaping the future" and is the human attempt to get to "desirable ends with available means". Dr. Vladimir Kvint defines strategy as "a system of finding, formulating, and developing a doctrine that will ensure long-term success if followed faithfully." Complexity theorists define strategy as the unfolding of the internal and external aspects of the organization that results in actions in a socio-economic context.
It turns out that strategy has to have some coherent context possibilities, coherent resource allocation possibilities, coherent action possibilities and coherent goals possibilites...meaning strategy has to have some elements of possibilities. Sometimes the possibilities are not visible by all. Sometimes some of the elements seem possible but the others not so.
Strategy has elements of one or more of
... to be continued
In the last eight years of reflections and meditations and connecting with diverse thinkers, i have been able to develop a few tools for helping me navigate various situation.
One such tool is to look at a word that i have been using for a long long time. And then stop and keep looking at it. Write it down. Close eyes and bring imagery around it or sheer spelling. Say it audibly louder to my own self.
And then attach a few question (devices) to see what happens to the word?
Imagine the word is "strategy".
Then attaching question devices:
What strategy?
Where strategy?
When strategy?
Who strategy?
Why strategy?
How strategy?
The idea is to stay with the question and not jump at the answer.
Some answers may arise and they can be noted as answers-in-progress and not final answers.
Then look at some other tools,
Does a newborn baby have a strategy?
Does a one month baby have a strategy?
Does one year old have strategy?
Does 10 year old have strategy?
What are similarities and differences in these strategies?
The idea is to stay with the question and not jump at the answer.
Some answers may arise and they can be noted as answers-in-progress and not final answers.
Then look at some other tools:
Does matter have strategy?
Do plants have strategy?
Do animals have strategy?
Does a patient in vegetative state have strategy?
The idea is to stay with the question and not jump at the answer.
Some answers may arise and they can be noted as answers-in-progress and not final answers.
The look at some other tools.
Are there places where strategies don't apply? (Example: On the planet of Mars, on 19 degrees North and 72 degrees East, what strategy do we need to have for building a Parliament Building?....we don't make strategies for places that are currently not apprehended and human-occupied yet).
Are there times when strategies don't apply? (example...you do not make strategy for undoing India's Freedom Struggle. However historian and other disciplines can have counterfactual approaches and different scenario outcomes)
It helps deeply to develop a practice of having deep insight meditations and co-sensing and co-discovering with a committed group to deeper reality.
The word and concept of strategy have been defined differently by different thinkers on Wikipedia.
Henry Mintzberg from McGill University defined strategy as a pattern in a stream of decisions to contrast with a view of strategy as planning, while Henrik von Scheel defines the essence of strategy as the activities to deliver a unique mix of value – choosing to perform activities differently or to perform different activities than rivals. while Max McKeown (2011) argues that "strategy is about shaping the future" and is the human attempt to get to "desirable ends with available means". Dr. Vladimir Kvint defines strategy as "a system of finding, formulating, and developing a doctrine that will ensure long-term success if followed faithfully." Complexity theorists define strategy as the unfolding of the internal and external aspects of the organization that results in actions in a socio-economic context.
It turns out that strategy has to have some coherent context possibilities, coherent resource allocation possibilities, coherent action possibilities and coherent goals possibilites...meaning strategy has to have some elements of possibilities. Sometimes the possibilities are not visible by all. Sometimes some of the elements seem possible but the others not so.
Strategy has elements of one or more of
- maintaining something
- modifying something
- creating something new
- letting go of something
- ignoring something
- focusing on something
... to be continued
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