Sensemaking in fluctuating environments, who stakeholders really are and what they need, and a call for deep and radical collaboration.

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We talk about strategy using terms of relative mutability. Strategies are “predictive,” “adaptive,” or, in adrienne marie brown’s language, “emergent.” A corollary of this is the degree to which strategies guide us to do a set of things or to be a set of ways, or perhaps both. These conceptual tensions certainly pre-date 2020, but after a year of dramatic, multifarious change across civil society, it feels appropriate to ask, “Strategic Planning: What Now?” Explore the question with us.
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“Sensemaking,” as defined by the organizational theorist Karl E. Weick, is the most essential capacity in an environment of constant flux. Editor-in-Chief Cyndi Suarez explores the improvisational mindsets and behaviors it requires of staff. Read more… ([link removed])

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