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 groups within which some connections do exist are called clusters (also known as communities).
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Whereas values are fundamental beliefs about what a network holds as important, principles are corresponding guidelines to inform decisions and actions. Principles operationalize values.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
schedule a set of convenings from the outset
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Fundamentally, the role of network leaders is to help diverse groups find the shared purpose that unites them, to foster self-organization, and to coordinate the actions that emerge so that they inform and reinforce one another.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
In the face of complexity, this structure turns into a bottleneck.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
this is what happens to successful start ups that become the large incumbant - they're hierarchical, needing to feed the predicatability of the markets, vs. agile, innovative, experimental. They traded size and market share for predicatbility
Connections are not just about relationships; they are also about flows—of information, knowledge, and resources.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
inviting them into co-creation—into the collective discovery of what the network is and what it can become.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Shifting Focus from Problems to Possibilities Exploring shared purpose is more about exploring shared possibilities than it is about defining shared problems. Instead of giving a network something to work on, give it something to work toward