The social labs revolution : a new approach to solving our most complex challenges /
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| Author / Creator: | Hassan, Zaid, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2014] |
| Description: | xvi, 185 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9918210 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface: Notes from a Practicing Heart
- Introduction: What Are Social Laboratories?
- What Does It Mean to Be Winning?
- Playing in the World Cup
- The Scale-Free Laboratory
- A Cascade of Social Labs
- 1. The Perfect Storm of Complexity
- The Perfect Challenge
- What Is a Complex Social Challenge?
- The Futile Optimism of Optimization
- Yemen as a Natural Experiment
- Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail
- 2. The Strategic Vacuum
- Business as Usual
- The Expert-Planning Paradigm
- Flying Autopilot in the Perfect Storm
- A Lack of Genuine Strategic Intent
- 3. The Sustainable Food Lab: From Farm to Fork
- The Race to the Bottom
- The Multiple and Conflicting Logics of Food
- What Is Sustainable?
- Systemic Spread Betting
- 4. The Bhavishya Lab: The Silent Emergency
- The Bhavishya Alliance
- The Moon Shot
- Movement Requires Friction
- Fail Early, Fail Often
- Business as Usual and Its Radical Refusals
- 5. The New Ecologies of Capital
- The End of the Beginning
- Emerging Forms of Capital and Preventing Collapse
- The Dumbest Idea in the World
- More Rainforests, Fewer Plantations
- 6. The Rise of the Agilistas
- The Practical Wisdom of Social Labs
- Starting with Current Realities
- Events Rupture Dispositions
- The Right Stuff
- 7. Steps Toward a Theory of Systemic Action
- First Requirement: Constitute a Diverse Team
- Second Requirement: Design an Iterative Process
- Third Requirement: Actively Create Systemic Spaces
- 8. Starting a Social Lab: Seven How-Tos
- Strategic versus Tactical Thinking
- #1 Clarify Intention
- #2 Broadcast an Invitation
- #3 Work Your Networks
- #4 Recruit Willing People
- #5 Set Direction
- #6 Design in Stacks
- #7 Find Cadence
- Conclusion: Next-Generation Social Labs
- Averting the Zombie Apocalypse
- State Collapse: A Stabilization Strategy
- Climate Change: A Mitigation Strategy
- Community Resilience: An Adaptation Strategy
- Battle of the Parts versus the Whole
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- About Reos
