CHAPTER 6
Convene the People
The world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible.
—MARGARET WHEATLEY AND DEBORAH FRIEZE, “Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale”
Convening the people means bringing together whoever is needed to advance the network’s purpose. People often join a network because they are inspired by its purpose, but they stay because of who is involved. Who is part of a network may be just as important, if not more important, than why the network exists.
Inviting Co-creation
When you bring people together in an impact network, you’re inviting them into co-creation—into the collective discovery ...
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