CHAPTER 9

Collaborate for Systems Change

Making systems work—whether in health care, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty—is the greatest task of our generation.

—ATUL GAWANDE, “How Do We Heal Medicine?,” TED2012

The systemic challenges we face call for a systemic approach, in which we address issues from many angles, simultaneously, as part of a coordinated effort. It is simply not enough to scale the work of individual leaders, programs, or organizations. Creating change at the rate we need is going to require a whole new level of planetary collaboration.

Systems change is the process of reforming or transforming the structures, relationships, policies, power dynamics, narratives, and norms in a given system in order ...

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