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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. September 12, 2012. In Organising for change. Deep participation: moving from beneficiaries to owners. Genuine stakeholder involvement isn’t simple, and understaffed and overstretched organizations often don’t quite get around to doing it better. What’s more, our non-profit culture, from funding demands to our desire for efficiency, is geared away from this way of working. What’s in a word? And the word beneficiaries naturally follows) but I al...
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Organising for change | Liz McDowell
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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. Archive Organising for change. RSS for this section. March 6, 2013. In Organising for change. Creating change from within the belly of the beast. So you want to green up your organization. Some organizations are able to innovate, turn stagnant business models into a force for forward-thinking leadership. Xerox’s pioneering remanufacturing. But how do you know which kind of organization you work for? Is there leadership buy-in and support? Is th...
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October | 2012 | Liz McDowell
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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. October 17, 2012. In Sharing what works. The f-word: on failing forwards. Engineers Without Borders bravely kick-started a much-needed conversation when they created their first Annual Failure Report. In 2008, followed by the launch of the Admitting Failure. Website in 2011. Since then the conversation has been opening up, propelled by some interesting initiatives like failcamp. And a couple of great failure-themed Ted talks. Recently I read a ...
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Green jobs in action: Clean Energy Works Oregon | Liz McDowell
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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. November 7, 2012. In Sharing what works. Green jobs in action: Clean Energy Works Oregon. Cross-posted from the East London Green Jobs Alliance. Part of a green jobs inspiration series. Recently I got to meet one of the Clean Energy Works Oregon. That makes efficiency upgrades more accessible to homeowners by helping them get private loans to carry out the work, which is then repaid with the savings on their energy bills. In 2011, the progr...
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March | 2012 | Liz McDowell
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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. March 31, 2012. In Organising for change. Brave new (flat) world. Update: I also wrote a more detailed version of this blog for the Guardian website: Non-hierarchical structures: could it work for you? Lately there’s been some buzz about how us kids today are working in very different ways than more established entrepreneurs, leaders and campaigners. And top-down decision-making, more likely to change jobs. Has spent the past year transitioning...
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Creating change from within the belly of the beast | Liz McDowell
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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. March 6, 2013. In Organising for change. Creating change from within the belly of the beast. So you want to green up your organization. Some organizations are able to innovate, turn stagnant business models into a force for forward-thinking leadership. Xerox’s pioneering remanufacturing. But how do you know which kind of organization you work for? Is there leadership buy-in and support? What do the top dogs think? Are they open to change? If yo...
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Reading list: collaborative leadership | Liz McDowell
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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. September 25, 2012. In Organising for change. Reading list: collaborative leadership. Here are a few great articles I’ve read recently on different models of leadership that follow the tenet ‘the responsibility of a leader is to create more leaders’, instead of thinking about a leader as someone who’s always at the front of the pack, making decisions and admitting no wrong. Leadership in the age of complexity:. On humility and being wrong:.
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September | 2012 | Liz McDowell
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Exploring practical strategies for a radically better world. September 25, 2012. In Organising for change. Reading list: collaborative leadership. Here are a few great articles I’ve read recently on different models of leadership that follow the tenet ‘the responsibility of a leader is to create more leaders’, instead of thinking about a leader as someone who’s always at the front of the pack, making decisions and admitting no wrong. Leadership in the age of complexity:. On humility and being wrong:.
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