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 inward facing 'hello world' declaration it orients the group and gives external people a feeling of the collective theyre orienting to
“A new type of thinking is essential if [humanity] is to survive and
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
By clarifying shared purpose, we explore the deeper commonalities that can bind us together.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
always focus on the relational field - purpose is another piece to that as well as a tool for direction
Using the consent-based decision-making process outlined in chapter 10, all participants agreed to formally adopt the sentence as the network’s purpose with the understanding that the network could revisit it at any time in the future if necessary.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
- big group question "How do we..." = bunch of rough purpose-ish statements2. Facilitator synthesizes into one draft3. Whole group offers feedback4. Volunteer committee from group during break takes feedback and brings upgraded draft5. Group, through consent process, ratifies (w/understanding it can be revisted in the future)6. NEtwork charter
“Share resources, share infrastructure costs, and engage in small collaborations where people see the benefit. Networks should be making everyone’s work and lives easier.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Impact networks provide value in many ways: they coordinate work among different actors and across organizations and silos without being controlling or directive; they are resilient to disruption, given their decentralized structures; they respond to urgent opportunities at a moment’s notice; and they integrate diverse perspectives to create new po
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center people who are affected by the issue at hand, as well as those who typically are excluded from networks—from the very beginning. This doesn’t mean “letting them participate,” it means listening and following their leadership.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Hierarchies are good at achieving the specific ends they were set up to achieve, but they are not well suited to addressing complex issues that have no readily apparent solution.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
At that exploratory gathering, discuss the following questions:3 • Why should we start this network? • Why should we not start this network? • What are the possible issues we would work on? • Who else should be at the table? Then, toward the end of the gathering, ask: • Should we proceed? • If so, to what degree are you interested in participating?
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