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Average rating: 3.73 · 377 ratings · 36 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed by Frances R. Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Patton 3.74 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experiments in Consilience: Integrating Social And Scientific Responses To Save Endangered Species it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complex Forms of the Religious Life: A Durkheimian View of New Religious Movements (American Academy of Religion Academy Series) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Maybe” comes with no guarantees, only a chance. But “maybe” has always been the best odds the world has offered to those who set out to alter its course—to find a new land across the sea, to end slavery, to enable women to vote, to walk on the moon, to bring down the Berlin Wall. “Maybe” is not a cautious word. It is a defiant claim of possibility in the face of a status quo we are unwilling to accept. And as you will see from reading this book, transforming the world is possible because the very complex forces of interconnection that make systems resistant to change are the same ones that can be harnessed to propel change. “Maybe” is hope incarnate—for all but the complacent and the cynical.”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

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“And what seemed almost impossible looking forward seems almost inevitable looking back.”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

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“It assumes that in any social innovation something radically new occurs and assumes that, for this to happen, there must be, first and foremost, a belief that intractable problems can be solved. It assumes there must be an individual or group of individuals poised and ready to act—but”
― Frances R. Westley, Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed

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