On Earth your company sees what is. On Mars, for one afternoon, your team leaves the limits and plays out the company it could be.
The strategy nobody dares to say. The future not yet allowed in the room. You see it, you play it, you come back with it.
The captain owns the question and picks what is played next.
Usually 5 to 25 people on stage. Everybody brings a question.
Guided by our team, or open so everyone can play.
We charge per play hour. For strategic questions we recommend a four hour session.
After each trip to Mars, capturing the key perspectives and possibilities.
Everything on Mars serves one thing. People who understand, believe and create.
The executive team plays first. One afternoon, one intent, everybody brings a question. Most decide the next morning what comes next.
The same question travels to the next hundred people. Different rooms, same stage, same rules. What the board saw, the company sees.
A series. Every team plays its own question, one afternoon at a time. A thousand people is forty afternoons.
Three plays that keep coming back.
Your strategy becomes a character and has to defend itself. In front of the people who are supposed to execute it. It rarely survives unchanged. That is the point.
Who leads when the title leaves the room? Your leaders find out by playing everyone but themselves. The successor, the customer, the competitor, the intern.
A merger, a new CEO, a new market. One question per team, one afternoon per month, until the whole company has seen the same thing from its own seat.
New perspectives, usually the one you couldn't see from your chair. And a Strategic One Pager after each trip to Mars, the key perspectives and possibilities on one page.
What happens next is up to you. That is the rule of Mars.
On Mars nobody is their job title. You are the Surgeon, the Widow, the Year 2030. Nobody is graded, nobody is quoted. What is played on Mars stays on Mars.
Every play is designed by a playmaker and produced by a producer. Same method in Prague, Zürich or London.
A teaser, to imagine it. Write the question your company cannot answer on Earth and in thirty seconds the sheet sketches how it could go on Mars: who might captain it, roughly how many people, where, how long, and how it might open.