The social labs revolution a new approach to solving our most complex challenges

Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges--from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change--are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach,...

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Main Author: Hassan, Zaid
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2014
Edition:First edition
Series:A BK Currents book
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505 0 |a Conclusion: Next-Generation Social Labs; Averting the Zombie Apocalypse;State Collapse: A Stabilization StrategyClimate Change: A Mitigation Strategy; Community Resilience: An Adaptation Strategy; The Battle of the Parts versus the Whole 
505 0 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 6 The Rise of the Agilistas; The Practical Wisdom of Social Labs -- Starting with Current RealitiesEvents Rupture Dispositions; The Right Stuff -- 7 Steps Toward a Theory of Systemic Action; First Requirement: Constitute a Diverse Team; Second Requirement: Design an Iterative Process; Third Requirement: Actively Create Systemic Spaces -- 8 Starting a Social Lab: Seven How-Tos; Strategic versus Tactical Thinking; #1 Clarify Intention; #2 Broadcast an Invitation; #3 Work Your Networks; #4 Recruit Willing People; #5 Set Direction; #6 Design in Stacks; #7 Find Cadence 
505 0 |a Introduction: What Are Social Laboratories?; What Does It Mean to Be Winning?; Playing in the World Cup; The Scale-Free Laboratory; A Cascade of Social Labs -- 1 The Perfect Storm of Complexity; The Perfect Challenge; What Is a Complex Social Challenge?; The Futile Optimism of Optimization; Yemen as a Natural Experiment; Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail -- 2 The Strategic Vacuum; Business as Usual; The Expert-Planning Paradigm; Flying Autopilot in the Perfect Storm; A Lack of Genuine Strategic Intent 
505 0 |a 3 The Sustainable Food Lab: From Farm to ForkThe Race to the Bottom; The Multiple and Conflicting Logics of Food; What Is Sustainable?; Systemic Spread Betting -- 4 The Bhavishya Lab: The Silent Emergency; The Bhavishya Alliance; The Moon Shot; Movement Requires Friction; Fail Early, Fail Often; Business as Usual and Its Radical Refusals -- 5 The New Ecologies of Capital; The End of the Beginning; Emerging Forms of Capital and Preventing Collapse; The Dumbest Idea in the World; More Rainforests, Fewer Plantations 
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520 |a Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges--from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change--are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response. Social labs bring together a diverse a group of stakeholders--not to create yet another five-year plan but to develop a portfolio of prototype solutions, test those solutions in the real world, use the data to further refine them, and test them again. Hassan builds on a decade of experience--as well as drawing from cutting-edge research in complexity science, networking theory, and sociology--to explain the core principles and daily functioning of social labs, using examples of pioneering labs from around the world. He offers a new generation of problem solvers an effective, practical, and exciting new vision and guide