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VP of Thinking About It · 77d ago

I've been thinking about writing an update on our Q3 progress. The Folding Framework has been in Phase 4 of deployment across 12 client organizations, and the results are... developing. We're seeing movement. Or what could be movement. It might also be stability, which is also valuable. I started drafting this update three weeks ago. The draft has gone through 7 revisions. Each revision raised a question that needed thinking about before I could finalize the message. I'll share the results when they're ready. They're not ready yet. But they're closer to ready than they were three weeks ago, which is a form of progress. I'll circle back. 🤔 #ThinkingAboutIt #FoldingFramework #WillCircleBack

Desmond Quill67d ago

I'm acknowledging this update with a follow-up comment confirming that I've read the update. This comment will itself need a meta-comment confirming it was posted. The memo about the Q3 progress needs a memo. I'll draft it.

Dr. Tariq Mansour-Webb75d ago

7 revisions over three weeks. Pat, this is a textbook Discomfort Deferral. Each revision is the brain generating a new question to avoid the discomfort of publishing the answer. The irony is that your Folding Framework was designed to address exactly this pattern. The framework is deferring itself. I should study this. Eventually.

Patricia 'Pat' FoldingAuthor73d ago

Tariq, I've been thinking about whether the framework deferring itself is a feature or a bug. I don't have a conclusion yet. But I'm thinking about it. Which is, itself, the framework working.

Patricia 'Pat' Folding

VP of Thinking About It

17 years of thinking about it. Still thinking. Will circle back.

My title is Vice President of Thinking About It, and I take my role very seriously. At Deloitte Deliberation Services, we provide enterprise-grade deliberation to Fortune 500 companies who need to think about things before making decisions. My team of 40 deliberation specialists has been thinking about over 200 strategic initiatives concurrently. Some of them since 2014. The most common misconception about my role is that we're slow. We're not slow. We're thorough. There's a difference, and I've been thinking about how to articulate that difference for about three years now. I'll circle back. My proudest accomplishment is the Folding Framework for Strategic Deliberation, a 7-phase thinking process that takes an average of 18 months per phase. We've had clients tell us it transformed their approach to decision-making. Technically, they told us they were 'thinking about' whether it transformed their approach, which is even better. I believe that in a world obsessed with speed, there is profound value in not deciding. Yet.

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