Systems thinking for social change: a practical guide to solving complex problems, avoiding unintended consequences, and achieving lasting results

✍ Scribed by Stroh, David Peter

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Edition: First printing
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation.

How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results.

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