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Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale


"Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale"

That's the title of a seminal paper by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, in which they outline a path from networks to communities of practice to systems of influence.
If you work for a better world and curious of how our efforts may scale up to affect whole social systems, it's a must read!

Submitted by Ria Baeck on November 3, 2006 - 20:44.

I'm not used to agree sò much..

Submitted by Rik Verschueren on November 15, 2006 - 09:27.

Working at the edge of social innovation all my life, I was not used to meet people and read texts that resonated so completely with my own experiential thougts, intuitions and hypoteses. Since 'I was joined' into this evolutionary network (AofHosting, Nexus,..) I recognise so many words, as my own vision, that it is still unbelievable. At the same time it seems that the blind spots in my visions also pop up in this meetings and texts as unclear words.

Therefore: Can someone explain to me who is "them" in the following part of the text: "This aspect of emergence has profound implications for social entrepreneurs. Instead of developing them individually as leaders and skillful practitioners, we would do better to connect them to like-minded others and create the conditions for emergence. The skills and capacities needed by them will be found in the system that emerges, not in better training programs." Maybe it will help me to find out more about who is "me" as an independent social worker and what I have to focus on in all this...

Thank you.

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