Category: IHMA Documents

Societal Change Systems – JABS – Waddell

Societal Change Systems – JABS – Waddell

Problems referred to as wicked, messy, complex, and meta-level, by their very nature, require involving multiple and diverse organizations. Issues such as climate change, poverty, sustainable agriculture, and health care involve many hundreds of organizations at a national level; at a global level this easily increases to many thousands. Emerging their collective power into an effective force represents an enormous organizing challenge. Drawing from complexity and global networking knowledge, and Read more [...]
Four Strategies for Large Systems Change

Four Strategies for Large Systems Change

By Steve Waddell  (Stanford Social Innovation Review Spring 2018 ) To create systems of societal change, we need to become clearer about the archetypes of societal change strategies, their strengths and weaknesses, and their interactions. FOUR CHANGE STRATEGIES Economist Joseph Schumpeter’s famous description of the “creative destruction” of capitalism is instructive for change more broadly. There is a natural tendency among those who work for societal change to focus on the creative part Read more [...]