it feels like more and more of my communities are growing comfortable experimenting with, testing, and learning emergent strategies. Rather than laying out big strategic plans for work, the invitation of emergent strategy is to come together in community, build authentic relationships, and see what emerges from the conversations, connections, visions and needs. last year in a workshop at the allied media conference, we generated ideas with a working definition of emergent strategy as: intentional, fractal (the same at the largest scale as it is at the smallest scale, toxic, healthy, joyful, stressed, etc), strong because it is decentralized, adaptive, interdependent, and creating more possibilities. To reiterate from earlier posts, emergent strategy is strategy (a plan towards a goal) based in the science of emergence – the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. i am writing this to share the thinking, learning i am doing in my facilitation practice. i have been identifying tools and principles for practicing emergent strategy in groups for some time. i used emergent process to move us through the time together, and got great feedback. Just spent several days facilitating the BOLD gathering with a team of brilliant people.
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