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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 523 Views adaptive strategy, attractor, backbone organization, behaviour change, change, collective impact, complexity, flashlight, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, innovation, psychology, resilience, risk, risk mitigation, simple rules, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, strategy, streetlight effect

Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need

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Collective action, impact, intelligence & stupidity

February 4, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 506 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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Systems thinking and collective impact

January 21, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 1080 Views collective action, collective impact, new year's resolutions, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, systems change, systems thinking

When we seek change the temptation is looking for ‘the key’ component of a problem or situation that, if changed,