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How to CollaborateAdam Kahane, Reos Partners18 November 2014
Reos’s Work on Complex ChallengesCountriesArgentinaBrazilCanadaColombiaGuatemalaIndiaIndonesiaIsrael/PalestineThe NetherlandsSouth AfricaThailandUnited KingdomUnited StatesZimbabwe
ChallengesChild malnutritionClimate changeCorruptionEconomic policyEducationEnergyFood securityGovernanceHealth careIllegal drugsJudicial reform Peace accordsRegional developmentSocial inclusion
Half the habitable land on earth is farmed.Half the habitable land on earth is farmed.
Food production uses huge amounts of chemicals, fossil fuels, and water.
We are losing soil at an alarming rate.
Falling crop prices put stress on farms and farmers.
Millions of farmers and farm workers live in poverty.
Fisheries around the world are being pushed to the point of collapse.
How do we turn things around?
Social Lab Process
Retreating to access deeper knowing
Making sense of the structure of the system
Immersing in the system
Crystallizing vision and leverage points
Convening a strategic microcosm of the system
Institutionalizing innovations
Co-Sensing
Co-Presencing
Co-Creating
Co-Initiating Co-Evolving
Prototyping innovations
Sustainable Food Lab Pilot Projects Sysco, Integrated Pest Management Institute: supplier standards to reduce use of
chemicals and natural resources Carrefour, Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation, local organizations in Africa: fish
procurement standards to improve lives in fishing villages Green Mountain Coffee, International Center for Tropical Agriculture: measuring
impact of procurement specifications on poverty City of Rome, US schools: healthy, sustainably produced food Unilever, JP Morgan, Soros Investment: biofuels benchmarking tool Foundations and think tanks in the US and Europe: shifting public attitudes and public
policies Unilever, PepsiCo, Heinz, Sysco, Marks & Spencer, Oxfam: farming system greenhouse
gas emissions practices Sysco, Superior Foods, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Oxfam: fresh
vegetables from Guatemala ASDA, Hershey, Kraft, Catholic Relief Services, International Institute for
Environment and Development: enabling African smallholders to trade with international companies
Unilever, Rainforest Alliance: certification of Lipton tea globally
Approaching Complex Challenges As If They Are Simple Challenges Creates Stuckness
Dimension Simple challenges Complex challenges Stuckness if complex approached as if simple
Definition Necessary approach
Definition Necessary approach
Dynamic Cause and effect are close together
Piece by piece
Cause and effect are far apart
Systemic: attending to interconnected-ness
Fragmenta-tion
Social Actors have similar perspectives and interests
Relying on experts and authorities
Actors have different perspectives and interests
Collaborative: involving the actors themselves
Polarisa-tion
Generative Future is familiar and predictable
Planning based on existing best practice
Future is unfamiliar and unpredictable
Experimental: learning through acting
Obsole-scence
Social Labs
From ToFixing symptoms or effects Addressing structural diseases or causesMaking recommendations on paper
Developing solutions in practice
Relying on experts or authorities
Involving all key stakeholders
Learning then doing (policy preceding implementation)
Learning by doing (policy arising from implementation)
Implementing one chosen solution
Iteratively incubating, prototyping, and managing a portfolio of promising solutions
A once-off project A stable and growing platform that delivers results over the short, medium, and long term
Transformative Scenario Planning Process
Step 1: Convene a team from across the
whole system
Step 5: Act to transform the system
Step 2: Observe what is happening
Step 3: Construct stories about what
could happen
Step 4: Discover what can and must be done
Four Ways of Talking (T) and Listening (L)
DownloadingT: Politeness/fear
L: Projection
DebatingT: Clash of ideas
L: Judging
DialoguingT: Self-reflectivity
L: Empathy
PresencingT: Generativity
L: No boundaries
Primacy of the Parts
Primacy of the Whole
Enacting emerging realities
Re-enacting existing realities
Source: Kahane after Scharmer
Suspending
Letting goRe-directing