Increase Your Strategy Plan’s Resilience & Flexibility

Recently my compost container’s carbon filter needed replacing. I grabbed a little Philips to detach the filter from the container’s plastic lid. The screwdriver size seemed right. But when I tried it on the tiny screws, they wouldn’t budge. Wrong tool, I thought. Our local hardware store knows everything about tools. They can get me …

Beyond Scenario Plans: Foresight for Ongoing Strategic Resilience

Social change organizations currently are doing scenario planning to prepare for 2025. These plans are designed to build organizational understanding of near-term threats or opportunities. They are mostly binary: “If McCain, then X. If Obama, then Y.” In short (and with apologies to those who recall Donald Rumsfeld), it focuses on the “known-unknowns.” But how …