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Not very practical, concrete, or helpful to me
I'm the executive director of a small non-profit and have been looking for some good books on strategy. consensus building, achieving the mission, etc. I purchased this book the quick advice of another executive director of a small non-profit. Although it's based on some good, creative ideas, I found this book to be unhelpful to me. I found that it repeats itself and meanders. It basically says, "Rethink conventional structures and be sure to collaborate," over and over again. It introduces concepts of community building and social change based on biomimicry but I don't find it convincing in this regard. We should run our communities like mycelium and fractals? Hm? Even knowing a little bit about these natural systems and how they work, I don't agree with the parallels the author wants to draw to them. Lots of systems exist in nature -- apex predators, for example -- but that doesn't mean we should model ourselves after them. In any case, I really wanted to like the book and I stuck with it up to about page 56, but I gave up. Just not for me.
January 2019 · Books · verified purchase
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, 0)
4.6★ · 1,662 ratings, as of 2023
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