Ten “Awakenings” to Organizational and Community Resilience
This is a momentary capture of a few, random “awakenings,” which means they may not be individually new nor collectively complete…simply an intersection of thoughts that suggest a few ways forward.
Many may be well-recognized; some, intuitive; others, counter-intuitive; and the rest simply kept rattling around in my head until I jotted them down. I suspect some if not all will resurface in subsequent blog entries or tweets.
- Network analysis reveals the skeletal, wire-frame structure for an emergent community…
- Every point of access into a network is a potential center of resonance for activating, enlivening the entire network…
- Points of resistance in an emergent community shape the flow of energy and the grain or texture of organizational resilience…
- Living organizations cultivate spontaneous differentiation of roles, responsibilities and relationships among multiple centers of resonance…
- A well-formed consensus liberates the diverse, differentiated frontiers of a community to watch, weigh-up and act on behalf of the whole…
- To reach the next level of energy, a movement may need to split or spin-off an independent unit for more powerful resonance…
- The most profound transformations occur when conflicting visions, strategies and alliances force a fresh perception of what is possible…
- Online social media reframes traditional modes of community interaction, extending them toward worldwide scale, transparency, immediacy, and greater personal responsibility…
- The ability of each individual to create and embody diverse roles within and across different community contexts makes structural transformation possible…
- The whole is not only greater than the sum of its parts but sets the stage for a greater wholeness…

















December 17th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Great post on #resilience by @kengillgren - esp mapping nodes of resonance and resistance | Patterns of Engagement http://j.mp/8WgEWL
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December 18th, 2009 at 10:45 am
.@CassieRobinson re cocreation and Spiral Dynamics, good ideas/charts-http://j.mp/8WgEWL, http://j.mp/7MS7DI #SCRM, @NewMindMirror #integral
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December 18th, 2009 at 10:51 am
10 Insights into Leveraging Social Networks http://j.mp/8WgEWL by @kengillgren via @openworld
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December 18th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Crucial RT @openworld @CassieRobinson re cocreation+Spiral Dynamics ..http://j.mp/8WgEWL, http://j.mp/7MS7DI #SCRM, @NewMindMirror #integral
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December 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am
10 Insights into Leveraging Social Networks http://j.mp/8WgEWL by @kengillgren via @openworld (via @VenessaMiemis)
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December 18th, 2009 at 11:45 am
10 Insights into Leveraging Social Networks http://j.mp/8WgEWL by @kengillgren via @openworld (via @VenessaMiemis)
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December 18th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
RT @VenessaMiemis: 10 Insights into Leveraging Social Networks http://j.mp/8WgEWL by @kengillgren via @openworld
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December 18th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Interesting! RT @VenessaMiemis: 10 Insights into Leveraging Social Networks http://j.mp/8WgEWL by @kengillgren via @openworld
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December 19th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Ten “Awakenings” to Organizational and Community Resilience | Patterns of Engagement http://bit.ly/4MdKjV
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