CHAPTER 10
The Enabling Infrastructure
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
—ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, The Wisdom of the Sands
To enable participants to work together effectively over time, impact networks require an adaptive infrastructure that grows along with the network. A good organizing structure allows a network to effectively channel the creative impulses of its participants, while too much structure risks stifling individual initiative. We recommend that networks adopt a minimum viable structure—the simplest possible structure that will effectively serve its needs, and one that can evolve as the network develops.
The work of urbanist Jane Jacobs highlights the folly of over-structuring in a different ...
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