Posted by Steve Waddell in Change, Net Dev on January 4, 2012

While working with Ashoka to scale transformational change, I recently met a most remarkable man with a most remarkable insight. Allan Savory is associated with environmental land management; his most remarkable insight is to integrate a physical science observation…

Scaling Up – Change – Complex Adaptive Systems

Posted by Steve Waddell in Blog, Change, Net Dev on October 19, 2011

“Scaling up” and “change” are two topics whose relationship is preoccupying me these days. I was delighted to discover an article that presents important insights by tying the topics to “complex adaptive systems”.

From what I’ve…

Zadek on Business, Sustainability and Incremental Versus Disruptive Change

Posted by Steve Waddell in Blog, Change on July 5, 2011

Simon Zadek is a leading thinker about paths of change that truly respond to the sustainability challenge. He is founder ofAccountAbility (although left), and works with numerous academic, corporate and governmental entities; 80% of his time is spent…

Change Networks Require Three Types of Expertise

Posted by Steve Waddell in Change, Net Dev on February 1, 2011

The work of Global Action Networks (GANs) as global change networks requires three types of expertise. The types shift if importance as a network evolves.

Particularly in their early days GANs lead with physical or substantive issue expertise…

Four Network Change Strategies for Complex Systems

Posted by Steve Waddell in Change on November 2, 2010

People easily get into arguments about “correct strategies” to realize change. Often with a little bit of dialogue, they discover that they are actually talking about complementary strategies. Then, they start to understand the limitation of their own advocated strategy, and that it cannot succeed on its own. These types of insights spurred Ken Wilber to popularize an integral approach to support a comprehensive and integrated view of the world, and to found the Integral Institute.