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Collective action, impact, intelligence & stupidity

February 4, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 325 Views Arab Spring, brainstorming, cognitive science, collective action, collective impact, complexity, decision making, design, Egypt, Ethan Zuckerman, evaluation, Hossein Darakhshan, Ken Blanchard, MIT Media Lab, Occupy movement, politics, psychology, social innovation, social laboratories, social media, Wael Ghonim, Winston Churchill

Collective impact is based largely on the concept that we can do more together than apart, which holds true under

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Mythmaking about speed and scale in social innovation

July 18, 2013September 4, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 368 Views Arab Spring, bureaucracy, complexity, contagion, epidemiology, innovation, Jenna Cullinane, Matthew Good, McKinsey & Company, patriarchy, Peter Block, Peter Drucker, scale, social change, social innovation, social systems, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Steve Davis

Yes, but does it scale? – Question asked at nearly every presentation on a social innovation ever made* It is

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