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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.

The GOLDEN Global Network Sustainability Change Strategy

Posted by Steve Waddell in Change, Net Dev on March 20, 2012

For over a year I’ve been working with an emerging academic research center – business network called GOLDEN. It has produced a very powerful strategy to realize the depth, speed and focus necessary to transform business into sustainable enterprises.…

Network Health as “Harmonic Vibrancy”: Analyze your network

Posted by Steve Waddell in Blog, M&E, Net Dev on March 13, 2012

Most multi-stakeholder networks are taking on pretty daunting challenges: climate change, corruption, sustainability, health, water, food security… What is critical to their success? A new perspective on this, accompanied by a very simply administered test, is offered with the concept …

Virtual Collaboration Tools for Networks, Participation, Transparency

Posted by Steve Waddell in Communications on January 31, 2012

A survey of a half dozen global networks revealed that their use of virtual collaboration tools is amazingly rudimentary. A couple of colleagues and I discovered that when identifying tools for GOLDEN to use. We wanted virtual platforms to support …

UN Global Compact: a Global Action Network Case Study

Posted by Steve Waddell in Net Dev on January 25, 2012

UN Global Compact Executive Head Georg Kell became frustrated with the lack of understanding about how the Compact differs from government agencies. It leads to wrong-thinking about how it should be “run” and what it can and cannot do. He …

Virtual Tools for Participation

Posted by Steve Waddell in Communications on January 18, 2012

“Public participation…is (a) realm in which other countries are advancing beyond the United States, turning us from a leader to a follower in democratic innovation.” Thus begins an information-ladden short response to the White House’s request for “thoughts” about the …