Resources from the Stanford Social Innovation ReviewSienna Jae Taylor
Communities and organizations around the world are adopting a different mindset to achieve large-scale systemic change through collective impact. But the question remains, how do we do this work well?
Although you can see at the end of a snowstorm everything that has been accomplished, how do you pull out those individual snowflakes, those unique players that made all the difference?
Today, the spaces where ideas are most freely expressed, where voices speak loudest and where previously unheard perspectives rise up to challenge our thinking, is increasingly taking place on the web.
Sometimes, like anyone, I get side-tracked, frustrated or both. I worry about things or imagine how things "could" turn out if we don't pay attention to things. I feel that way about "movements."
As we enter 2016 it is becoming increasingly apparent that the technology that looks to divide us, may actually have the potential to bring us closer together.
What do you do when you realize the monumental project you have undertaken will have to be finished without you?TWKlaus
This is my truth about collective leadership: it is less about techniques and tactics to help us become better at collective leadership; and mostly about individual attitude and will.
Changing the system requires systems thinking and collective impact although too often we mention the latter without the former. That needs change, too.
