Apr 24
I hear about it all the time… Collaborate with people who share your values. Really? You know why they say this? Because it is pleasant and easy. When you are around people who share your values you can agree all the time, because you are using the same basis for your judgements. There isn’t much …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2013/04/friction-is-your-friend/
Feb 23
Unlike metrics of simple systems, the metrics of complex adaptive systems have a life span. They grow in value over time. And then they decay in value as well.
Take twitter. At first it was follower count – and that still matters some. But over time, people found ways to gain followers that didn’t coincide …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2013/02/lifespan-of-social-metrics/
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2013/02/organizational-heartbeat/
Dec 06
We had a series of aha moments. Herman was explaining a recent design choice. We connected it with a prior design choice, and this took us to a transcending moment of seeing how these patterns are at work. This unleashed a raw flurry of cascading aha moments, which are roughly captured here.
Designing Networks
Consider …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/12/strange-attractor-design/
Nov 19
1. Big Lever Funding
I am currently participating in the Illinois Task Force for Social Innovation. And working on ci2iglobal, and transitioning Inspired Legacies. Having worked in or around nonprofits and philanthropy for a decade, I have seen the field changing. I remember the first budding of Mission Related Investing, when there were basically 3 …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/11/5changesphilanthropy/
Oct 28
I hope you will join me November 2nd in Chicago for a workshop on Co-Created Solution Design at Chicago Bioneers.
This workshop is for you if:
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/10/co-created-solution-design-workshop/
Sep 14
I get asked a lot to do many things for free. All the time. And I find I sit in a tension between advocacy for the content of the work – give that away to promote the work – AND that my work is a service process that I earn a living from.
So people …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/09/give-it-away-now/
May 11
I am incredibly excited to announce our affiliation with ci2iglobal, the Collective Impact and Innovation Institute. We have been hard at work behind the scenes for over a year, working together to share our wisdom, create useful tools, and facilitate powerful events and laboratories. Our event, We_b, in January at the HUB Brussels brought together some …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/05/we_b2-and-ci2iglobal/
Mar 29
Nobody warned me what this journey would be like. No one took me aside and said – your beliefs, your very morality will change on this adventure. So before I embark on the next endeavor within this adventure, let me share a bit about what I discovered. Cause I sure wish someone had warned me. …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/03/nobody-warned-me/
Feb 29
It may seem like I am an optimist and the whole thrivability effort is full of utopian idealism. I am sure, for me, that is not the case. I am a pragmatist. While I love exploring, if the exploration doesn’t result in something that matters and gets tangibly completed, I feel like I wasted the …
Permanent link to this article: http://thrivable.net/2012/02/pragmatism/
Recent Comments