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Gleanings From the 2018 Network Leadership Training Academy

May 22, 2018 – Connection is a social determinant of health.     Last week I participated in the Network Leadership Training Academy hosted by the University of Colorado at Denver’s Center on Network Science. It was wonderful to meet fellow network geeks and enthusiasts... Read More

Networks, Return-On-Investment and Co-Creation

January 24, 2018 – “The most robust and resilient networks are those that create additional value for each participant while strengthening a community or ecosystem as a whole.” – Adam Pattantyus Return-on-investment (ROI) is not a term that I love, especially given how militantly... Read More

3 Mantras + 3 Small Moves for Advancing Networks

December 4, 2017 – “Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies.” -Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy A couple of weeks ago I was in Michigan to do a presentation and discussion with representatives from a... Read More

Network Development Tools: Connection Stories

February 27, 2017 – “We add value to society-at-large when we dare to connect.” – Gibran Rivera For the past five years, Food Solutions New England has been building a regional collaborative network organized to support the emergence and sustainability of a New England... Read More

Network Behaviors to Leverage Network Effects

September 13, 2016 – Think like a network, act like a node. At IISC, we continue to emphasize that networks, not organizations, are the unit of social change. Part of the reason for this is that networks at their best are able to leverage... Read More

Networks: Redefining Who and What Matters

May 3, 2016 – Part of the underlying and deeper change potential of taking a network approach is the notion that we lead with contribution before credential. This means being open to the idea, for example, that a 15-year-old high schooler or home schooler... Read More

Network Impact: Different Approaches and Common Ground

March 10, 2016 – In an article in Fast Company, entitled “The Secrets of Generation Flux,” Robert Safian writes that in these uncertain times, there is no single recipe for success. Safian profiles a number of leaders who have been relatively successful at riding the waves in... Read More

Network Leadership Roles 2.0

February 24, 2016 – “Network entrepreneurs are keenly aware that they are few among many working across the larger system, and in this way they embody a special type of … leader[ship].” – Jane Wei-Skillern, David Ehrlichman, & David Sawyer The concept of leadership has been... Read More

Living Systems Lessons for Social Change Networks

January 5, 2016 – A couple of years ago, I was turned on to the work of Louise Diamond. Diamond has been bringing insights from the dynamics of complex systems to peace building work for many years. Her efforts connect to a growing number of... Read More

Networks: Micro-Collaborations, Moving Love Down the Power Curve

December 11, 2015 – The following is Christine Capra’s thoughtful response to my post on “Deepening Network Practice for Social Change.” Christine is a self-described network mapper, weaver, and guardian with Greater Than the Sum. NOTE: Text that is bolded represents my additions and editorial changes... Read More

Deepening Network Practice for Social Change

December 8, 2015 – Last week, we held an internal learning session for staff and affiliates entitled “Advancing Equitable Networks.” IISC Affiliate Kiara Nagel and I presented some thoughts about our ever evolving practice of supporting network development for social change, including situating our current... Read More