Systemic investing and financing

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total

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. . . a systematic approach to supporting and growing diverse forms of local capital (including financial), particularly through — increasing local control and ownership of those capitals; improving the alignment of external sources of finance with locally identified priorities; and locally reinvesting the value created by economic activity so as

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But very few organisations are performing the analytical work to understand where the system is today, where it needs to go, how it could get there, and what all of this means for the deployment of capital. Transition mapping does that, suggesting a number of specific leverage points for transformation, and demonstrating the networking effects... See more

We need to work at developing and nurturing constellations of investors and funders committed to a shared mission, and nudge them to start channelling capital in a strategically aligned way.