This practical guide shows how to facilitate collaboration among diverse individuals and organizations to navigate complexity and create change in our interconnected world.
The social and environmental challenges we face today are not only complex, they are also systemic and structural and have no obvious solutions. They require diverse combinations of people, organizations, and sectors to coordinate actions and work together even when the way forward is unclear. Even so, collaborative efforts often fail because they attempt to navigate complexity with traditional strategic plans, created by hierarchies that ignore the way people naturally connect.
By embracing a living-systems approach to organizing, impact networks bring people together to build relationships across boundaries; leverage the existing work, skills, and motivations of the group; and make progress amid unpredictable and ever-changing conditions. As a powerful and flexible organizing system that can span regions, organizations, and silos of all kinds, impact networks underlie some of the most impressive and large-scale efforts to create change across the globe.
David Ehrlichman draws on his experience as a network builder; interviews with dozens of network leaders; and insights from the fields of network science, community building, and systems thinking to provide a clear process for creating and developing impact networks. Given the increasing complexity of our society and the issues we face, our ability to form, grow, and work through networks has never been more essential.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
Part One — Working Through Networks
Chapter One: The Web of Change
Networks for Impact
Relationships: The Heart of Networks
Chapter Two: The Network Mindset
The Hierarchical Mindset
Networks and Hierarchies, Together
Making the Mindset Shift
Chapter Three: Making Networks Work
Primary Forms of Impact Networks
Core Activities of Impact Networks
Chapter Four: Network Leadership
Network Leadership Roles
Principles of Network Leadership
Part Two — Cultivating Impact Networks
Chapter Five: Clarify Purpose and Principles
Catalyzing a New Network
Finding Common Purpose
Defining Shared Principles
Chapter Six: Convene the People
Inviting Co-creation
Designing Meaningful Gatherings
Facilitating Emergent Outcomes
Chapter Seven: Cultivate Trust
Weaving Connections
Deepening Trust
Holding Courageous Conversations
Chapter Eight: Coordinate Actions
Accelerating Flows
Practicing Reciprocity
Responding to Crisis
Chapter Nine: Collaborate for Systems Change
Making Sense of the System
Creating Transformation
Planting Sequoias
Chapter Ten: The Enabling Infrastructure
Organizing into Teams
Bounding Participation
Making Collective Decisions
Embedding Evaluation
Resourcing Networks
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author
About Converge
Über den Autor
David Ehrlichman is the cofounder and coordinator of Converge, a company that aims to establish sustained, effective coordination across geographies and sectors on complex social problems and helps people work together on behalf of the communities and constituents they serve. Over the past seven years, Converge practitioners have helped build over forty strategic networks and advised over 150 others across the United States and the world. Ehrlichman has previously worked as a consultant at the Monitor Institute, Sterling Network NYC, and New Leadership Network in Fresno. He graduated from Stanford, earning a degree in management science and engineering with a focus on social entrepreneurship.
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