Amateurs talk strategy, leaders talk logistics. ![]() In order to do this work, according to the Billions Institute’s Model for Unleashing, you must be willing to “hug the bear,” or confront your fear head on, unpack what’s behind it and embrace failing forward.Ĥ. Fear often leads to blame, criticism and self-doubt. One of the primary reasons organizations and individuals do not set smart aims is because of fear. When you operate in fear, everything rustles. As long as you are tight on aims, you can afford to be loose on everything else.ģ. To set a smart aim, you have to first understand what complete success looks like for you, understand where you are in the expansion process and then set a specific time-bound goal for the next 18-36 months. Very rarely do organizations have quantifiable, time-bound objectives or aims like ours - five proof point communities (with measurable outcomes improving and evidence of systems changing) by June 2018. In Switch speak, this is what “motivates the elephant.”Ģ. We have to match the rigor of our improvement approach to get results with an equal effort to motivate, mobilize and do a better job of telling the story about the impact on kids. Most people are not motivated by static data charts. We cannot allow process to be the albatross. ![]() We have to generate interest in our mission to motivate behavior change. If you want to spark change, feeling is the fuel. To try and distill my learning from the three-day school into some key takeaways was not an easy task, so I’m sharing a few key nuggets today and you can expect to see more from us as we incorporate our learnings into the everyday work we do with the Network:ġ. And lastly, Christine Margiotta (executive director of Social Venture Partners Los Angeles) pushed us to uncover some of the “unspeakable invisibles” - such as fear of failure, scarcity mindset, indecision, overreliance on consensus and running on overwhelm - that exist in all of us and keep us from creating the change we want to see. Twum-Danso (founder and CEO of MAZA) discuss her work to reduce infant mortality in Ghana as part of the Project Fives Alive! Campaign.ĭan Heath (2015 StriveTogether National Convening keynote speaker and co-author of Switch) provided individual coaching on getting super clear about our intervention to help mobilize others to care about the change we are trying to make and change their behavior as a result. We heard Becky Margiotta (keynote speaker at the 2016 StriveTogether National Convening and co-founder of the Billions Institute) share lessons learned from her work to combat homelessness on the 100,000 Homes Campaign, Joe McCannon (co-founder of the Billions Institute and former vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) share his work to improve patient safety on the 100,000 Lives Campaign and Nana A.Y. ![]() ![]() Next, similar to the StriveTogether approach, the leaders of the Billions Institute and the Skid Row School faculty put together a curriculum that forces participants to address both the adaptive and technical aspects of leading social change. So needless to say it was quite therapeutic to be able to spend time with like-minded professionals, each seeking to make the world a better place, and commiserate about our successes and failures on our respective journeys. Just when you feel like you’re making progress, you turn on the news and realize there’s so much more work to be done. I think that we can all probably relate to this. The experience was transformative.įor one, it came at the end of what has been a year filled with high highs and low lows. Earlier this month, Parv Santhosh-Kumar and I had an incredible opportunity to gather together with 35 social sector leaders and spend three days at the Skid Row School for Large-scale Change.
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