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Category Archives "Emergence"

Mutations are the way to make change

January 2, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Being, CoHo, Community, Emergence, First Nations, Leadership, Organization, Practice 4 Comments

Very few of us have our hands on the real levers of power.  We lack the money and influence to write policy, create tax codes, move resources around or start and stop wars.  Most of us spend almost all of our time going along with the macro trends of the world.  We might hate the implications of a fossil fuel economy, but everything we do is firmly embedded within it.  We might despise colonization, but we know that we are alos guilty of it in many small ways, The reason challenges like that are difficult to resolve is that we …

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Dealing with disruption

July 26, 2012 By Chris Corrigan BC, Being, Collaboration, Community, Conversation, Emergence, Flow, Improv, Leadership

I was listening to a brilliant interview with the theologian and scholar Walter Bruggeman this morning.  He was talking about “the prophetic imagination” and using the poetry of the Old Testament prophets to make a point about a key capacity that is missing in the world right now: the ability to deal with disruption.   SImply, disruption is what happens when the plans we thought we had have suddenly changed.  It could be a major economic collapse – a black swan event – or something so small as your bus left early.  How we respond to disruption is a key …

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What does it take to make real social innovation?

July 19, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Community, Emergence, Leadership, Philanthropy 2 Comments

Very interesting little article from David Wilcox about the differences between social entrepreneurs and social innovators. Here is how he describes those differences, from a tactical perspective:   4 Differences Between Social Entrepreneurs & Social Innovators Here are four reasons why social entrepreneurs are significantly different than nonprofit social innovators: 1. Two Worlds Most foundations and many nonprofits came into existence through a significant donor or donation. The people who shepherd the outcomes for those donors must be attentive and accommodating.   Quite simply, donors drive much of the nonprofit world’s activities. Most social entrepreneurs start with their very personal …

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Addicted to knowing

February 14, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Emergence, Leadership, Organization One Comment

The Cynefin framework is helpful in making a distinction between the worlds of complicated problems and the worlds of complex ones.  One simple distinction between these two worlds is the extent to which they can be known. In a complicated domain, the parameters of the problem can be known and several good practices can be hammered out, with largely knowable results.  In the complex domain, the initial conditions are unknown and the results are unknown which is why small experiments designed to tell us more about what is going are very useful for creating emergent practice. Financial markets are famously …

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Action, complexity and a centre

January 26, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Collaboration, Conversation, Design, Emergence, Facilitation, Flow, Leadership 3 Comments

Just coming off an Art of Hosting with friends Tenneson Woolf, Caitlin Frost and Teresa Posakony.  Something Tenneson said on our last day as we were hunkering down to do some action planning, has stayed with me.  He said something like “it is easy to create actions that go off in a million different directions, but much more sensible to create actions that come from a common centre.  There is something about holding that common centre together invites trust so that we can release responsibility to action conveners and known they are initiating works that comes from our common shared …

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