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Plan in Uncertainty
Planning is a challenge even in the best of times. But it is a necessary challenge. A plan helps you align imagination with resources, expectations with realities, and individual concerns with collective good.
Reliability used to be the major measure of success, so we learned to replicate and increase quality by reducing variation. People and processes were rewarded for doing the same thing the same way, just faster. That strength has turned into a dangerous weakness for organizations today.
GovernmentManage Strategic Change
Around the world, groups of all kinds are taking action to improve the environment. International non-governmental institutions, governments at all levels, private industry, and research institutions implement programs to reduce greenhouse gases, increase access to safe water, clean up old chemical dumps, or take many other actions to protect the environment.
Build Adaptive Capacity
I attended my grandson’s wedding last weekend. I would hurry to say that I’m too young to have a grandson getting married (which is true), but more on that later. In the glorious autumn sunshine of Los Angeles, we came together to celebrate the joining of a pair of lives, and all pairs and all lives.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
—John F. Kennedy
Build Adaptive Capacity
Each year at this time, we plan the Adaptive Action Labs (AALabs) for the next year. We consider a number of factors in selecting the topics. What challenges are clients talking about? What questions do we hear from Associates? Which of the AALabs has been successful in the past, and which ones should be put aside for a year or two? Ultimately, after these questions, the anchor we always come back to is this: What topics will best help individuals and groups live out the HSD Vision?