
Saved by Keely Adler and
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Saved by Keely Adler and
On so many levels, interdependence requires being seen, as much as possible, as your true self.
The other tragedy of this quick narrowing is that people get left out, not just in a slightly hurtful way, but left out of how we construct every aspect of society, infrastructure and culture. We come up with incredible plans that don’t account for crucial segments of our communities—I’ve
This book is for people who want to radically change the world.3 To apply natural order and our love of life to the ways we create the next world. To tap into the most ancient systems and patterns for wisdom as we build tomorrow.
need transformative justice (TJ) to be framed as a part of emergent strategy so that we can acknowledge we are midwifes to a changeling—that TJ is mutable process with only its values set in stone.
Adaptation reduces exhaustion. No one bears the burden alone of figuring out the next move and muscling towards it. There is an efficiency at play—is something not working? Stop. Change. If something is working, keep doing it—learning and innovating as you go.
Move at the speed of trust.38 Focus on critical connections more than critical mass—build the resilience by building the relationships.
At the human scale, in order to create a world that works for more people, for more life, we have to collaborate on the
Humans? Some of us are surviving, following, flocking—but some of us are trying to imagine where we are going as we fly. That is radical imagination.
We learn to deny our longings and our skills, and to do work that occupies our hours without inspiring our greatness.