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Governance in and for complexity
The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
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As the five cases illustrate, intermediary platforms are predominantly
but not exclusively local. Intermediary platforms provide considerable
insight into our understanding of the shifting landscapes of govern-
ance in complex and fluid multi-tiered systems such as the Canadian
federal system. As boundary-spanning entities, they employ mecha-
nisms and
I. Systems Leaders
Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. These policy problems resist simple solutions by a few powerful actors in one center of government
II. Challenge
Systems change is disruptive to the usual ways of thinking and acting, which means that systems leadership is... See more
Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. These policy problems resist simple solutions by a few powerful actors in one center of government
II. Challenge
Systems change is disruptive to the usual ways of thinking and acting, which means that systems leadership is... See more
Brian Goodwin taught me that the most important lesson of complexity science is a shift of intention away from prediction and control to appropriate participation . The mental, emotional and psychological state of an intervener affects the outcome of any systems intervention. If we stop wanting to control change and shift to a responsive dance with... See more
Daniel Christian Wahl • Emergence and Design
The cases in this book also show that the strategic agency of mod-
ular network structures cannot guarantee that public or hybrid or-
ganizations can successfully chaperone the activities of their policy
subsystems. Such subsystems can exhibit moribund tendencies that un-
dermine the adaptive capacities of innovation milieus. They can calcify
sclerotic