When we are confronted by multiple interpretations of the “real world,” the alternative to seeking to determine which is “right” is to admit multiple interpretations and seek those that are most useful for a particular purpose, knowing that there is no ultimately “correct” interpretation.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
no one lens is capable of bringing everything into focus. Rather, I need multiple lenses to see different aspects of a complex reality, and cannot rely exclusively on one lens to see the multiple layers of complexity.
John Paul Lederach • Conflict Transformation
The problem is that with all that knowledge, it is easy to get overconfident and to rush, simply listing the pressures and putting an intervention against each of them. Down that path lies madness. It is entirely possible for a single pressure to give rise to many interventions and equally possible for one intervention to satisfy many pressures.
Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
From mythmaking to legal treaties to weaving to movement building, what knits these various examples together is their avoidance of single solutions to complex problems, instead enabling a pursuit of multiple different actions and wider systemic changes with long term, positive transformations