Reflections on Champions for Change 2015
One of the biggest lessons I’ve walked away with this week is about perspective. A bird’s eye view—the kind that shows us the big picture, keeps our priorities straight, and identifies new opportunities—is critical when you’re working in collaborative strategies and the health system.
Sometimes, a job pays much more than just what’s in the paycheck.
Sometimes, a job pays much more than just what’s in the paycheck.
Millions of people have occupations that provide rewards that don’t show up on a W-2 form – the warmth of accomplishment, the knowledge that they are helping people, and the satisfaction of giving back to and improving their community.
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.
Innovators transform the world around them in big and small ways and while a successful effort can be lauded by pundits, politicians and the public there is a long road to making change happen. That road is also a lonely one and doing things different means more than just innovating and experiencing what it...
Traditional community development philosophy implies togetherness, understanding and cooperation and is based on simple values, not a single ideology............. It acknowledges that community is the intangible and spiritual environment where people co-exist, raise families and build futures and memories.
A simple tool which captures the complexity of community change efforts
Community change efforts are akin to a snowstorm. There are many individual flakes of activity but they are difficult to distinguish once the snowstorm has finished. The Outcomes Diary tool helps you track both individual snowflakes and the cumulative results.
Audio Seminar || Margaret (Meg) Wheatley
In this audio seminar, Paul Born speaks with Margaret (Meg) Wheatley about her seminal essay from a decade ago Pioneering Leaders and explores how her work has continued to evolve and deepen: reaffirming the power of community and the importance of being a "warrior for the human spirit."
Economics has become the primary focus of development, not people and their communities. Forgotten is the fact that economic development, as we have come to know it, had as its foundation, community development. Community development, at its roots, is organic.
Encouraging change is like water-skiing ... are you trying to water-ski all by yourself?
The “developed” world is again under treat by a new wave of ultra-conservative ideology that is gaining control of many democratic governments and free societies, not only threatening their democracies, but bent on destroying any form of social contract that exists.
They need remember that democracy is fundamentally about power to the people not power over people.
A link to a blog post on www.vibrantcanada.ca
Read my recent blog post about Place-Based Policy Change.
Discovering What Our World Wants To Be
In this world of complexity and constant change, when it is difficult to have confidence in a long term plan or strategy, there is a thread we can follow and it is the thread of our own aliveness
Michael Jones
Change happens when 100 minds come together
Impact and change can happen when you bring over 100 minds together to consider how to effectively evaluation complex community efforts.
The wisdom of Peter Block
How Peter's wisdom has invited me to think deeper and differently about how I work at building communities.
