STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
ACTION
Culture: You select board members that represent multiple sectors and
organizations with different expertise and perspectives.
Strategy: You break big and complex social problems down into a series
of manageable “wins” each with its own unique urgency, but each leading to
achieving larger change.
Planning: You create processes for approving and evaluating experimental
initiatives; leadership holds staff accountable for exploring new opportunities using
these processes (through a performance review system).
Communication:
You publicly celebrate organizational failures in addition
to successes and hold yourself accountable to learning for the sake of progress.
Measurement:
You routinely launch pilot or “proof of concept” initiatives
as part of your strategy and identify early-stage milestones against which you
measure progress.
Evaluation: You create an internal system that evaluates how you are
tracking against success metrics in order to better understand what is and isn’t
working.
Funding: You establish a “just in case” fund to enable the organization to
dedicate resources to urgent issues as they arise; you build flexibility into funding
guidelines that make it possible to invest in the unforeseen.
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