Vaughn Tan

A new way to teach public sector strategy

FOUNDATION: A game of not-knowings

Designing AI tools that support critical thinking

Not-knowings, on demand

(Good) categorisation beats empiricism

Stacking spaces

A not-knowing synthesis

Games of uncertainty

The AI expertise conundrum

Optimisation fallacy

Business is a meaning-making act

Building AI tools for better meaning-making

The future of education is meaning-making

A course on public sector strategy

Decomposable strategy problems

What we keep getting wrong about not-knowing

Thinking strategically about products and services

The public sector needs a better way to do strategy (and I’m building one)

A Bangkok diary

Good strategy must focus on tradeoffs, not just goals

Consulting for the problems you can’t name yet

Why experimenting well matters (and how to do it better)

Unlocking transformative public policy work

Why you’re doing interviews wrong (and how to fix it)

Don’t fall into the public sector efficiency trap

Mess is more

Good strategy understands affect, not just cognition

How to ask for an introduction

Good strategy is embedded, not purely abstracted

Strategy is not the same as planning

Seven strategy tensions … and misunderstandings

Unpacking Boris