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Sense Making 360 to address Double Disconnect Draft V0.2

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  Geoff Marlow discusses the concept of the Double Disconnect in his insightful blog post. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/geoffreymarlow_the-double-disconnect-activity-7066272734787301376-lwMG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop This is an experimental blog co-authored with ChatGPT. So please consider this as a draft ThoughtSpark to facilitate a discussion. In today's ever-changing and uncertain world, organizations need to move away from relying solely on prediction-based planning. Instead, they should foster an entrepreneurial culture that values innovation, agility, and adaptiveness. However, this is easier said than done, especially when confronted with the Double Disconnect. The Double Disconnect refers to two distinct challenges. Firstly, there is a disconnect between sense-making and decision-making, which hampers the organization's ability to make informed choices. Secondly, there is a disconnect between decision-making and action-taking, impeding the impleme...

Sense Making to address Double Disconnect

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  This is a test for the first blog in SenseMaking360.ai Geoff Marlow writes about Double Disconnect In today’s increasingly uncertain and unpredictable world, organizations must leave behind the comforting chimera of prediction-based planning. Instead they must cultivate the capacity to dynamically sense and respond by creating an entrepreneurial culture of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness. That’s easier said than done - especially when hampered by the Double Disconnect… This  Double Disconnect  — firstly “up the pyramid” between  sense making  and  decision making , and secondly “down the pyramid” between  decision making  and  action taking  —  is getting progressively worse due to the increasing pace, uncertainty, and unpredictability of change . The  Double Disconnect  is a fundamental barrier to creating an entrepreneurial culture. And it all stems from the old orthodoxy that the role of a senior executive is to...