Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
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Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
The system is more complex than anyone can grasp on their own.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
advocate. “We’re creating a new way of relating and working with each other.”
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Networks are webs of relationships connecting people or things. When they seek to address social and environmental issues, they are called impact networks.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Learning networks are formed to facilitate the exchange of information, spark innovation, increase coordination, and bolster members’ ability to adapt knowledge to local challenges.2 Sometimes they are also formed to provide peer support and to promote the individual development of their participants, as is the case with leadership networks and fel
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Rather than trying to scale up an individual organization, building an increasingly large and efficient machine, they instead seek to scale out, developing stronger connections to generate impact through collaboration.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
The first mandate for the design team is to take what they heard from the exploratory meeting and refine it into a cohesive narrative for the fledgling network. In the process, they can clarify a draft purpose.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
include as open role at exploratory meetinghave team purpose for design team setdo team chartercreate draft network purpose for upgrade and ratification later?
Network leadership is also distributed—anyone can demonstrate network leadership, from wherever they are, in many different ways.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
if we set the container, guiding principles of how we decide and act, and offer trust first, and receive reflection after, then individual hearts and expertise can lead whenever needed, without permission, and networks can really flex and change their worlds - especially if we let go of need for tight, concrete measurement of every impact
E. L. Doctorow said about the process of writing a book, “It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”