Joe Ryan is the Executive Director of the Crux Alliance. Crux supports six organizations that focus, respectively, on the six major sources of carbon emissions. Their mission is to impact policy in countries across the planet. Joe wrote a great article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review about how robust stakeholder networks accelerate climate progress. We talk about what the qualities of these networks are, and how Crux has adapted OKRs to their specific needs over the past five years. Finally, we touch on the role of strategic foresight and, potentially, artificial intelligence to provide a deeper perspective on where climate work is needed.

Peter Compo has a delightfully provocative perspective on strategy, having worked in that area at Dupont for 25 years. What do we even mean by strategy? For many, it's a stack of vision, values, goals, and big projects. Peter would call that a "strategy framework." And by his definition, many strategy frameworks actually lack.... a strategy. Peter defines strategy as a central rule or policy designed to address tradeoffs and guide decision making and other behavior. As a well-thought-out set of guardrails, this kind of strategy actually creates a clear space within it for creativity and innovation. Sound ironic? Check it out.