Tim Brown and Roger Martin provide a really nice description of how you might do this in their article “Design for Action.” In particular, the idea of throwing out multiple possible strategies and consciously debating them rather than incrementally working from strategies that are already in place is excellent.

Introduction:

“First and foremost, thank you for opening this book. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed living, learning, and gathering it.

It is so important that we fight for the future, get into the game, get dirty, get experimental. How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material?

We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data.

But first we imagine.

We are in an imagination battle.

(Brown, “Emergent Strategies”, p.50)

1. How can my real-time actions contribute to transforming this situation (versus making it worse)?