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Product details Series Emergent Strategy Paperback 280 pages Publisher AK Press; Reprint edition (April 18, 2017) Language English ISBN-10 1849352607

Emergent Strategy Shaping Change Changing Worlds adrienne maree brown 9781849352604 Books Reviews

• This is one of the most innovative approaches to organizational development I've ever read. It is a brilliant, poetic and practical manual for facilitating and running meetings, groups, companies and campaigns. With real world examples of how emergence strategies can help us work smarter and not harder, to bring more presence, aliveness, joy and hope into our efforts to make the world, and our everyday lives, better. adrienne maree brown is truly masterful at weaving together threads of different political, social, economic, spiritual, and even science fiction theories into a very accessible guide for anyone who seeks to participate in changing the world.
• I'm the executive director of a small non-profit and have been looking for some good books on strategy. consensus building, achieving the mission, etc. I purchased this book the quick advice of another executive director of a small non-profit. Although it's based on some good, creative ideas, I found this book to be unhelpful to me. I found that it repeats itself and meanders. It basically says, "Rethink conventional structures and be sure to collaborate," over and over again. It introduces concepts of community building and social change based on biomimicry but I don't find it convincing in this regard. We should run our communities like mycelium and fractals? Hm? Even knowing a little bit about these natural systems and how they work, I don't agree with the parallels the author wants to draw to them. Lots of systems exist in nature -- apex predators, for example -- but that doesn't mean we should model ourselves after them. In any case, I really wanted to like the book and I stuck with it up to about page 56, but I gave up. Just not for me.
• I’ve never read a book in this genre. My usual reading is books on business, self-improvement, innovation, creativity, and science fiction. I picked it up after my partner recommended it, and I noticed there were connections made to sci-if authors like Octavia Butler. In this book I encountered a radically different vision of what the future could look like, and a radical path of healing and emergence and growth that could make that future happen. I’m deeply inspired by the diversity and courage of the ideas in this book, which are a clear reflection of the diversity and courage of movement building. This book is going to have a profound impact on my work, which is about building a movement of self-aware individuals transforming people’s relationship to their work, performing it as a form of growth and self-expression instead of as an obligation. Thank you so much to Adrienne, for sharing your wisdom with us.
• I usually inhale books quickly in one sitting. Not this! I've never sent more quotes from a book about more topics than this one. It's part permission to be human, alive. It's beautiful scientific research on ecosystems and other species who have much to teach us. It's the role of sci-fi/fantasy books and writing in ways to achieve justice. It's beautiful poetic prose, word mandalas, new ideas constantly shifting like in a kaleidoscope.
  
  And I worried, "Oh no, will she give some PRACTICAL HOW TO? Because I am dazzled by the ideas and starting to lose faith that I would ever be able to do this with friends. She'll lose a star for describing these concepts if I don't have some guidance!
  
  Never fear, she clearly explains how to do these paradigm shifts. So often it was mentioned that in any group of people there's a conversation that only they can have, an important one. Yet I've sat through many meetings well aware that most of us don't know why we bothered to show up.
  
  She delivers the goods! Easy to understand and clear to follow.
  
  Also she has an amazing way of packing a lot of necessary information into manageable chunks. The interviews with others mostly helped me see that others she works with aren't copy cats. There's a lot of great teaching from her teachers that stand out, so you're not just reading her ideas, skills, experience but those of others. It's like being in a conversation.
  
  She successfully gets these important, new messages across in different ways, so if one section is confusing, another should help you access it. Maybe not all of the book is for you, but it's written to reach different people - which you'd expect from a great facilitator.
  
  I'd love to read a book about romantic and one to one friendships by her!