SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including cities, the imagination, disruption, capitalism, and careers.
Organizational Development - Most Popular
Innovative approaches to internally driven, organization-wide efforts to achieve strategic goals (more)
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What’s Next for Patagonia?
An excerpt from The Future of the Responsible Company on the right to be responsible
What Strong Organizations Know About DEI
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are much more than a passing fad. They are a framework for engaging an organization’s full strength.
Improving Health Care in the DRC
Performance-based incentives, auditing, and feedback boost performance at health centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Innovator’s Tale of the Phoenix and Dragon
How social innovators can manage their organizations in a way that balances a linear, problem-fixing approach and a more exploratory, agile one.
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Measuring Progress Toward Community Power
How to disentangle the different scales through which organizations build their capacity
Strong Boards: An Antidote to Founder Syndrome
A strong leader’s assets can sometimes become organizational liabilities. But why? The problem might be within the structure of the organization itself.
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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?
Six ideas that could help organizations improve hiring, performance, equity, and more.