WHAT “Circular Economy (CE) is widely recognized as the new economic model aiming to maintain the value of materials, parts, and products as long as possible, minimize the extraction and use of virgin resources and waste generation using design strategies that slow the flow of resources, close loops between production and post-use, and increase resource efficiency.” WHY It can be used to Operationalize or Build out one or more of the Four Dimensions of a Social Enterprise CE

By: Joseph Wernau Note to Readers: In order to solve social problems social entrepreneurs use storytelling to facilitate their system change efforts. N.B. Module 10 of the Practitioner Guide in this Blog has additional resource material on story telling. (Edited lightly for length) Storytelling for Systems Change Story is not decoration. In systems change work, narrative is infrastructure. It shapes which problems get named, who gets blamed, and what solutions feel possible.

Robert Thompson Note to Readers: The pre-mortem tool is, in my opinion, easy to understand, use and effective in identifying potential errors in a project before implementation. NB: Article edited for length. “I remember the exact moment I became a coward. Not a dramatic, movie-villain cowardice. The smaller, more professional kind — the kind that wears a lanyard and sits quietly in a boardroom chair. It was a Tuesday. Third-floor. The glass-walled kind of conference room th

Note to Readers: Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a brilliant protestant theologian executed by the Nazi’s in 1945. Anticipating his death, he wrote a letter, to fellow anti-Hitler conspirators, entitled Theory of Stupidity. I think it provides a helpful way to understand the opposition to social change by stakeholders supporting a social problem embedded in the status quo. Such opposition is often rooted in groupthink which is also a challenge facing all organizations, including soc