Emergent Strategy : : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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Introduction -- Principles of emergent strategy -- Elements of emergent strategy -- Fractals: the relationship between small and large -- Intentional adaptation: how we change -- Interdependence and decentralization: who we are and how we share -- Nonlinear and iterative: the pace and pathways of change -- Resilience: how we recover and transform -- Creating more possibilities: how we move towards life -- Conversations -- Assess yourself: your emergent strategy journal -- Spells and practices for emergent strategy -- Tools for emergent strategy facilitation -- Outro.
"Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist "spirituality" based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us."--Amazon.com.

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A must read for organizers and leaders of any kind submitted by Richard Lee Pierre on August 15, 2019, 1:15pm Brown’s book is a positive, inclusive, enlightening way to think about change — in ourselves, the groups we belong to, and the world at large. I especially appreciate the way Brown explains how her ideas are informed by writers like Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin and other thinkers. The basic message of the book comes across readily early on, so parts of it can seem repetitive, but overall it’s a very insightful look at the the newest generation of leadership.

How Fractals And Grace Lee Boggs Inform Today's Leadership submitted by BookNerd on February 12, 2023, 1:01pm No math here. You can benefit from emergent thinking without getting deep into the technical side of emergence theory.

A hopeful, poetic look at new ways of surfing the waves of change and creating change in your own life and organizations. Useful for those interested in transformational justice, and new ways of looking at power structures and structural change.