Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting ResultsChelsea Green Publishing, 30 sep 2015 - 250 pagina's “David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems thinkers. This book will help to resuscitate these intuitive capabilities and strengthen them in the fire of facing our toughest problems.”—Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline Concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning—for everyone! Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation. How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results. Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert. Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people improve their efforts on complex problems like:
The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want. |
Inhoudsopgave
Why Good Intentions Are Not Enough | 13 |
A Catalyst for Social Change | 19 |
Telling Systems Stories | 29 |
Storytelling for Social Change Shaping a Systems Story The Elements of Systems | 43 |
An Overview of the FourStage Change Process | 71 |
Building a Foundation for Change | 79 |
Engage Key Stakeholders Establish Common Ground Build Collaborative Capacity | 89 |
Making an Explicit Choice | 137 |
Bridging the Gap | 147 |
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Accidental Adversaries achieve actions AEA System align applied systems thinking Associates Organizational Learning behavior benefits build Calhoun County causal loop diagramming challenges chapter collaboration committed complex continuous learning create crime current reality David Peter Stroh develop diagram Donella Meadows Education effective efforts end homelessness Engagement evaluation example Fifth Discipline figure Fixes That Backfire fundamental solution funders funding goals identify impact implementation important improve incarceration increase initial Innovation Associates Organizational insights investment Kids leverage points Limits to Growth long-term loop Mark Kramer mental models Michael Goodman Nicholas Kristof opportunities organizations people’s permanent housing Peter Senge prison problem programs providers quick fix reduce reinforcing relationships Scharmer shelters short-term social change stakeholders story strategy success factors sustainable System Dynamics systemic theory systems map theory of change thinker undermine understanding unintended consequences vicious cycles vision Vulnerable Populations