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

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

Best Practices are Useless in Complex Systems

Jen Briselli medium.com

Sam Liebeskind

one of the central explorations implicit within The Liminal Web is how do we combine the yang of systems change with the yin of interbeing. How do we simultaneously let go of control whilst also growing into our capacities as cultivators of a world more curious and kind.

Joe Lightfoot • The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets

Stuart Evans

Places to intervene in a system

Gordon Brander newsletter.squishy.computer

Sam Liebeskind

If you didn’t want to look closely at your own organizational practices, if you felt uncomfortable about what younger works were agitating for, if you feared changed or anything that usurped your understanding of “how business is done” — Quiet Quitting was the easy answer.

Anne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting - by Anne Helen Petersen Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting

Keely Adler

Counterintuitive. That’s Forrester’s word to describe complex systems. Leverage points are not intuitive. Or if they are, we intuitively use them backward, systematically worsening whatever problems we are trying to solve