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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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Join us on May 27th for an expert panel discussion with Dominique Sumari of P3 Development Group, Nadine Smith of Equality Florida, and Steve Zimmerman of Spectrum Nonprofit Services that asks: “Strategic Planning: What Now?” Register here…
 
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Improvisation over Strategy

 
“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…
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Nature’s Patterns as Strategy

 
If you still have yet to read adrienne marie brown’s book, Emergent Strategy, let this beautiful 2017 review by Miriam Zoila Pérez inspire you. “Nothing that [brown] does, nor anything that she believes will change the world, happens without deep and radical collaboration.”
 
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Stakeholder engagement in strategy development can range from performative to deeply accountable. Frequent NPQ contributor Elizabeth A. Castillo offers a practical guide in “Who Are Stakeholders and Why Do They Matter?
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