Category: Collaboration

Collaboration, Complexity, Networks, Systems Change, Uncategorized

Networks: Lessons Learned and Launching Pads

Over the past seven years, the First 2000 Days Network has invested deeply in an adaptive learning approach. This report is a summary of the high-level lessons that came out of the Network’s efforts. Building a high-quality network is a long process and the Network’s success and failures are informative for other collaborative efforts. My co-author, Sami Berger and I entered into the First 2000 Days Network because of the incredible opportunity to build something using a unique, innovative approach. There is a freedom when you’re given permission to re-think what’s needed to achieve real change that is desperately needed. The Network […]

Collaboration

Building Cultures that Help us Collaborate

This blog post explores the role that our cultural context plays in our capacity for high quality collaboration, co-written by myself and Sami Berger. You can find it here. This was also shared on Visible Network Lab’s website, a great resource to learn more about Social Network Analysis and the PARTNER tool.  You wake up in the morning and turn off your alarm. You get dressed in your jeans and button up shirt. You balance your cup of coffee in your hand as you lock your door. You ride the subway, looking at the ground, listening to a podcast. You […]