Notes
1Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Der Zauberlehrling,” trans. Paul Dyrsen, Goethe’s Poems, New York: F. W. Christern, 1878.
2Alan Moore, “System Change Through People Power,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, September 11, 2012.
3Peter Long, “Systems Change Should Lift Up Beneficiary Voices,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, April 1, 2015.
4Valentina Raman and Ross Hall, “Systems Change in Education: It Begins With Us,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 12, 2017.
5Peter Senge, Hal Hamilton, and John Kania, “The Dawn of System Leadership,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2015.
6Susan Misra and Jamaica Maxwell, “Three Keys to Unlocking Systems-Level Change,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, April 29, 2016.
7 Jeffrey C. Walker, “Solving the World’s Biggest Problems: Better Philanthropy Through Systems Change,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, April 15, 2017.
8Srik Gopal and John Kania, “Fostering Systems Change,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 20, 2015.
9Srik Gopal, Donata Secondo, and Robin Kane, “Systems Thinking: A View from the Trenches,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 2, 2017.
10Mark Kramer, “Systems Change in a Polarized Country,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, April 11, 2017.
11Olivia Leland, “A New Model of Collaborative Philanthropy,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 15, 2017.
12Senge, “The Dawn of System Leadership.”
13Dan Vexler, “What Exactly Do We Mean by Systems?” Stanford Social Innovation Review, June 22, 2017.
14Dietrich Dörner, The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations, New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996.
15Dietrich Dörner, “On the Difficulties People Have in Dealing with Complexity,” Simulation & Games, vol. 11, 1980, pp. 87-106.
16John Kania and Mark Kramer, “Collective Impact,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011. Olivia Leland, “A New Model of Collaborative Philanthropy,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, November 15, 2017.
17Christian Seelos and Pamela Varley, Transforming Desert Land & Human Potential: Egypt’s “SEKEM” Initiative Reaches a Crossroads, Case Study, Harvard Kennedy School, forthcoming 2018.
18Ibrahim Abouleish, Sekem: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert, trans. Anna Cardwell, Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2005, p. 187.
19“Key Messages of Egypt Voluntary National Review 2018,” Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2018.
20Herbert A. Simon, “The Architecture of Complexity,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 106, no. 6, 1962, pp. 467-482.
21Moore, “System Change Through People Power.”
22Thomas Both, “Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, March 9, 2018.
23Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair, Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 2017.
24Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos, “Water Is Power,” Impact India, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2017.
25Heather Grady, Kelly Diggins, Joanne Schneider, and Naamah Paley Rose, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, 2017.
26Leland, “A New Model of Collaborative Philanthropy.”
27Walker, “Solving the World’s Biggest Problems.”
28Senge, “The Dawn of Systems Leadership.”
29Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair, “When Innovation Goes Wrong,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2016.
