Leadership
If You Want to Teach Social Innovation, Teach Power
Lessons from Wesleyan on entrepreneurial education
Tag: Systems Thinking
Education
Right Ingredients, Wrong Recipe: What It Takes to Really Get Children Learning
Shifting away from rote learning requires more than the right inputs. Meaningful learning can only take place when school systems put the right political, cultural, and behavioral conditions in place.
Webinar
Leadership
Connecting the Dots Between Strategy and Design
Two-Part Certificate Workshop Program
Session 1: Strategy and Scoping: Setting the Stage for Impact
Session 2: Design for Impact: Exploring and Iterating Your Way Forward
In this 180-minute interactive program, learn how to advance your mission by combining innovative strategic logic, systems thinking, and active human-centered design work.
Excerpt
Leadership
Putting Systems Change in Place
An excerpt from Connected to Place on applying systems change principles to place-based initiatives
Impact Investing
Why Impact Investing Might Collapse and How to Stop It
The current paradigm of viewing impact in isolation from the systems surrounding investments is not sustainable. Applying a systems lens helps investors make better decisions related to sourcing, management, and measurement that lead to lasting positive impact.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Community Beyond Resources
Ending homelessness is about housing. Except when it's not.
Cities
Urban Development Needs Systems Thinking
Lessons from 15 cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia on addressing interconnected civic challenges.
Leadership
Grappling With Systems Collapse: How Social Sector Leaders Can Respond
The social sector needs new models for understanding what impact might be possible when the systems we operate in fall apart.
Excerpt
Human Rights
Working With Cracks
An excerpt from Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems on finding the leverage points for change
Security
What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?
The polycrisis requires seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across multiple systems.