There terms "community engagement" and "community mobilization" are often easily used as synonyms. However, the more I have studied and practiced both, the more I find the mixing of the two terms to be confusing, problematic, and incorrect.

What do you do when you realize the monumental project you have undertaken will have to be finished without you? This was the question Antoni Gaudi faced when the architect realized his great work, the Sagrada Familia, would not be finished in his lifetime. His solution is one that is still available to us today.

I have a confession to make. I attend Tamarack's Collective Impact Summits for very selfish reasons. I have come to experience and appreciate the annual event as a personal retreat.

Here we go again. It is the Quadrennial Quest for the next "great" leader of the United States. Are we ready to embrace a different approach to leadership that is a better practice now and in the future?

Working in complexity requires us to move away from the comfort zone of "best practices" and "evidence-based" solutions to "what if" experimentation that may or may not work. This is a loaded proposition for many people. How does it sit with you?

Has an over-reliance on "best practices" and "evidence-based" practices struck a deathblow to our ability to think creatively and our courage to be experimental?

Many of us who are working on Collective Impact and other social change initiatives are eager for change to come and it cannot come quickly enough for us. We cannot, however, let our impatience convince us that we do not have time to be kind.

I'm a really lucky guy. I got to spend a week with my Canadian friends earlier this month and, once again, they both affirmed and pushed my thinking. Boy, did they affirm and push!

I like ketchup...on steak...on many foods...which I've observed is an affront to many Easterners among whom I now live. Imagine my joy, then, while in Saskatoon last February, on the coldest day in 20 years (-41 degrees with wind-chill), that I ran into ketchup pushers.

If a social change movement is not about "the least of these," then it is just a business and social change is just another industry providing greater benefit to those working within the industry than to those whom it is supposed to serve.