Critical thinking, systems thinking, and strategic problem solving
Develop the judgment and frameworks to identify problems worth solving and build solutions that matter
Course orientation, assumption calibration activity, incomplete mental models, the cost of confident decisions with bad data.
Why intelligence doesn't prevent bad decisions. Prediction failure, elephants & riders (intuition vs rationality), falsifiability as a thinking tool.
Systems thinking fundamentals — stocks, flows, feedback loops, leverage points, system traps. Includes the fishing game activity.
Identifying problems worth solving. Problem pitches, founding hypotheses, customer identification, cheap loops for validation.
Where human value lives in an AI world. Kind vs wicked domains, automation rules, intersections as differentiators.
Customer clarity and differentiation strategy. The 2x2 battlefield, competition analysis, founding hypothesis refinement.
Visibility and self-advocacy, the art of storytelling and persuasion, navigating organizational power. Why great work alone isn't enough.