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 […]

Networks: What, When and Why?

I co-authored this article with Sami Berger, founder of Curious Compass.   Learn from the people Plan with the people Begin with what they have Build on what they know Of the best leaders When the task is accomplished The people all remark We have done it ourselves – Lao-Tzu     net·work – noun “… a group or system of interconnected people or things.” Networks are foundational to how we connect to our surroundings, each other, and the built environment. Ecological networks depend on the number and types of interactions between different species, food and water sources. Our families […]