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This is a blog for people who want to vastly improve ways to address critical challenges of the 21st century such as climate change, poverty, sustainable agriculture, corruption, water, security, the financial system, forests, and marine resources. These are global challenges that require big changes in us as individuals, our organizations and our societies. We are developing organizing innovations to address these challenges, and this blog aims to spur further development and dissemination of those innovations.

Large Systems Change: Core ideas for a newly coalescing field

Posted by Steve Waddell in Net Dev on May 3, 2013

You’re invited to a webinar on Large Systems Change: Core ideas for a newly coalescing field. This webinar proposes for discussion core ideas that are common across several developing concepts including: societal change, transition management, social partnership development, transformational change, …

Global Change Research: Radically Inter- and Transdisciplinary Environments

Posted by Steve Waddell in Net Dev on April 23, 2013

Traditional science is failing our large systems change challenges. Climate change, for example, not only requires non-scientists to change – it requires scientists and the way they work to change as well. This is the core message of a new …

Wicked Problems, Governance as Learning Systems

Posted by Steve Waddell in Net Dev on February 14, 2013

Wicked Problems, Governance as Learning Systems

Anyone working on multi-stakeholder issues is probably working with a “wicked problem”. That is actually a technical, academic term that has spurred some valuable work on how to take action in such a situation, …

Dilemmas of Interorganizational Learning

Posted by Steve Waddell in Net Dev on January 30, 2013

A new publication pushes the boundaries of what is known about interorganizational learning (IOL). In the latest issue of the Dutch-based capacity.org, IOL is looked at from the perspective of the publication’s main audience: the non-profit development sector. Reflecting …

Leadership and Networks: A new resource

Posted by Steve Waddell in Blog, Leadership on January 7, 2013

Traditional organization approaches to leadership can lead to disaster with networks – I’ve seen wrong headedness turn networks into hierarchical organizations that unwittingly eviscerate the benefits for choosing a network in the first place. What are the core principles of …