If you want to change a human system, you need to find people who agree with you that it needs to change. These people will fall along a continuum in regard to their attitude to change. This starts with those… Read more ›
These are some of the challenges I’ve spotted; Power dynamics are always at play in systems change work. How do you build enough credibility to convene the best actors in a system? How do you get finance for your… Read more ›
“At visiting time, we asked our wives to leave, before the prison guards told them they had to” he said. A small cluster of us sat wide eyed and silent as Malusi Mpumlwana, co-founder of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa… Read more ›
‘We dont work with people who suck’ says Cheryl Dahle founder of Future of Fish, describing one of her principles for collaboration learnt through trial and error on her systems change project. At The Finance Innovation Lab we developed a similar… Read more ›
I heart systems change. It’s the pocket of practice that I’ve been working for the last five years and a topic I am motivated to write about even though I’m on maternity leave. But when I try to explain to… Read more ›
