Posts Tagged ‘Sustainability’

May/07/13//Gibrán Rivera//Featured, Structural Transformation

What Strategy Is NOT

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This post is Part III in a series on Strategic Planning and Emergence.

Your vision is not your strategy.  Neither is your plan.  Your benchmarks are not your strategy, nor your complicated grids.  Your hedgehog or your very audacious goals are not your strategy either.  Your predictions of what the future will look like, no matter how organized and well researched, are definitely not your strategy.

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May/03/13//Gibrán Rivera//Structural Transformation

What is Strategy

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This post is Part II in a series on Strategic Planning and Emergence.

It doesn’t make much sense to look at strategic planning without taking a look at what we mean by strategy.  There doesn’t seem to be a clear consensus on what people mean when they use the word strategy.  I like the way Thomas Rice, IISC’s founding board chair, talks about it here.  Thomas stresses that strategy is about how you choose to deploy scarce resources in order to achieve your goals.

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Apr/30/13//Gibrán Rivera//Structural Transformation

Strategy, Planning, Emergence

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I spend a lot of time figuring out how to work with emergence.  You don’t plan emergence, you create the conditions for emergence.  But how does that fit with strategy?  How do you do strategic planning in a world that is too complex for straight lines and long timelines?

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Apr/25/13//Cynthia Silva Parker//Featured, Structural Transformation

Immigration Reform and Movement

Hope you enjoy this article as much as we did! It’s a great illustration of the kinds of connections we need to make between movements–in this case immigrant rights and environmental sustainability–to stand a chance of seeing the kinds of transformation we’re seeking.

Philip Radford of Greenpeace and Bill McKibben of 350.org recently joined the growing crowd of people calling for comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship.

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Apr/09/13//Gibrán Rivera//Inspiration, Structural Transformation

“El Hielo” by La Santa Cecilia

It’s a big week for the immigration debate among our policy makers. If you watch one video today, let it be this one.

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