System Change

Systemic change is generally understood to require adjustments or transformations in the policies, practices, power dynamics, social norms or mindsets that underlie the societal issue at stake. It often involves the collaboration of a diverse set of players and can take place on a local, national or global level.

Adam Zeiner and

#29: On boundary objects

Luke Craven pigontracks.substack.com

Adam Zeiner

Places to intervene in a system

Gordon Brander newsletter.squishy.computer

Sam Liebeskind

social change always begins with people who have “both a critical eye and a hopeful heart.”

Sam Pressler • Building societal structures to hold the messiness of our relationships

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Marshall Ganz

Theories of Change and Logic Models: Telling Them Apart

Understanding the distinction between Theories of Change and Logic Models, their components, and when to use each in program design and evaluation. Balancing complexity and simplicity for optimal effectiveness.

theoryofchange.org

Sam Liebeskind

Co-Impact

co-impact.org

Adam Zeiner

the great thing about living in a world of dying systems is that you are uniquely well-positioned to replace suboptimal systems with something superior. New growth takes root best in the decay of its predecessors. For most of the past, if you wanted to create a better future, you had to rally the troops and take someone else’s land or destroy

Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38

Keely Adler

Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.

Justin D. Henderson • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout

Keely Adler

Don't Fight the System - Change the Rules and the System Will Change Itself! - The Systems Thinker

Robert S. Gray thesystemsthinker.com

Adam Zeiner

Best Practices are Useless in Complex Systems

Jen Briselli medium.com

Sam Liebeskind