Impact Networks with David Ehrlichman | Green Pill #59
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Impact Networks with David Ehrlichman | Green Pill #59
hierarchical structures are a poor choice for multistakeholder collaborations. By holding on to control, the people at the top of hierarchies limit the self-organizing potential of the rest of the system.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
In his 2008 book Here Comes Everybody, media theorist Clay Shirky suggests a useful hierarchy for sorting through these new social arrangements, ranked by the increasing degree of coordination employed. Groups of people start off simply sharing with a minimum of coordination, and then progress to cooperation, then to collaboration, and finally to c
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These networks deliberately connect people and organizations together to promote learning and action on an issue of common concern. We call them impact networks to highlight their intentional design and purposeful focus, and to contrast them with the organic networks formed as part of our social lives.9
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
-Is there a better way of proposing, collaborating, and working towards common goals?-Why has our governance and the political model remained the same for many years? Because is it the best way or are there better ways of doing things?-Is the pyramid structure the best model to manage country, military, or corporations? Is there an alternative?-Wou... See more