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Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change
In our fast-changing world, leaders are increasingly confronted by messy, multifaceted challenges that require collaboration to resolve. But the standard methods for tackling these challenges—meetings packed with data-drenched presentations or brainstorming sessions that circle back to nowhere—just don’t deliver. Great … Continue reading
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The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry – Systemic Practice and Action Research
This issue of Systemic Practice and Action Research focuses on the practice of co-operative inquiry, and in particular on the choices and actions of those who initiate and facilitate co-operative inquiry groups. I have been struck how much the people … Continue reading
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Leading Change: Breaking Through the Fear of Mistakes
One of the most underestimated reasons for change to fail is the fear of failure. Fear of failure can be deeply embedded in the organization. In the way targets are set, in the way performance and success is managed, in … Continue reading
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Bottlenecks for change
Influential community leaders might hinder transformations in natural resource management. Adaptive governance and the active engagement of resource users at different scales is increasingly considered to be crucial for changes in the governance of ecosystems services. However, there are also … Continue reading
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems
Think of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they’d already been solved and you didn’t even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice? Leverage … Continue reading
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The Chinese Bamboo Story – A Lesson in Patience
A great lesson of patience, persistence and hard work can be learned from the story of planting Chinese bamboo. Unlike most other plants, Chinese bamboo is quite unique on its own. When this bamboo is planted, watered, and nurtured for … Continue reading
The concept of change in the age of P2P and the Commons
Michel Bauwens talks at TEDxHornstull, October 2011
Occupy Wall Street, Swarm Behavior & Self-Organized Criticality
If you’ve been watching the Occupy Wall Street protests these last few weeks, you may be surprised by how quickly it spread from a small group of disgruntled youth in New York to a planetary mobilization that is now active … Continue reading
Understanding Phase Transitions for Social Change
The great challenges of the 21st Century are systemic in nature. From ecological decline to cybersecurity in a digital age, the patterns of change we must grapple with are profoundly complex. Change agents will need to understand how change unfolds … Continue reading
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Unlearning in crisis and change
What do you need to know in order to effect change? What do you need to learn to bring change about? These are questions that we ask as we set out to become agents of change. But we should also … Continue reading
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