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“Complexity theory shows that great changes can emerge
from small actions. Change involves a belief in the possible, even the “impossible.”
Moreover, social innovators don’t follow a
linear pathway of change; there are ups and
downs, roller-coaster rides along cascades
of dynamic interactions, unexpected and
unanticipated divergences, tipping points
and critical mass momentum shifts. Indeed,
things often get worse before they get better
as systems change creates resistance to and
pushback against the new.
Traditional evaluation approaches”
― Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
from small actions. Change involves a belief in the possible, even the “impossible.”
Moreover, social innovators don’t follow a
linear pathway of change; there are ups and
downs, roller-coaster rides along cascades
of dynamic interactions, unexpected and
unanticipated divergences, tipping points
and critical mass momentum shifts. Indeed,
things often get worse before they get better
as systems change creates resistance to and
pushback against the new.
Traditional evaluation approaches”
― Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
“Complexity writings are filled
with metaphors that try to make complex
phenomena understandable to the human
brain’s hardwired need for order, meaning,
patterns, sense making, and control, ever
feeding our illusion that we know what’s
going on. We often don’t. But the pretense
that we do is comforting—and sometimes
necessary for some effort at action.”
― Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
with metaphors that try to make complex
phenomena understandable to the human
brain’s hardwired need for order, meaning,
patterns, sense making, and control, ever
feeding our illusion that we know what’s
going on. We often don’t. But the pretense
that we do is comforting—and sometimes
necessary for some effort at action.”
― Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
“Accountability-focused evaluators report independently to decision makers charged with making sure that resources
are spent on what they’re supposed to be
spent on.
In contrast, for vision-and-values-driven
social innovators the highest form of accountability is internal. Are we walking the
talk? Are we being true to our vision? Are
we dealing with reality? Are we connecting
the dots between here-and-now reality and
our vision? And how do we know? What are
we observing that’s different, that’s emerging? These become internalized questions,
asked ferociously, continuously, because
they want to know.”
― Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
are spent on what they’re supposed to be
spent on.
In contrast, for vision-and-values-driven
social innovators the highest form of accountability is internal. Are we walking the
talk? Are we being true to our vision? Are
we dealing with reality? Are we connecting
the dots between here-and-now reality and
our vision? And how do we know? What are
we observing that’s different, that’s emerging? These become internalized questions,
asked ferociously, continuously, because
they want to know.”
― Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use
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