Emergent Strategy
all that you touch
you change
all that you change
changes you
the only lasting truth
is change
god is change31
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Octavia butler
what’s between capitalism and socialism?46
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
There is an art to flocking: staying separate enough not to crowd each other, aligned enough to maintain a shared direction, and cohesive enough to always move towards each other
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
What we pay attention to grows
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
Change happens. Change is definitely going to happen, no matter what we plan or expect or hope for or set in place. We will adapt to that change, or we will become irrelevant.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
When Wheatley visited Detroit on a learning journey, she said systems built on greed eventually collapse on themselves, topple under their own top-heavy weight.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
critical connections are more important in a long-term transformation process than critical mass.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
“Transform yourself to transform the world
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Strategy is a military term simply meaning a plan of action towards a goal.19
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
This can’t be the purpose of our species, to constantly identify each other as “other,” build walls between us, and engage in both formal and informal wars against each other’s bodies.