Whether the challenge you face came on suddenly or accumulated around you, there is a basic human toolkit that helps create a way forward. Whether you have many resources or few, ou can find strategies for innovation to find solutions to the world's most difficult problems. Paul Komarek's presention is motivational, positive, and forward-thinking, suitable for church groups, prisoner re-entry, mental health and addiction recovery, as well as job hunters or anyone who is stuck, with a path that's not clear.
16. Four Questions for Recovery
What helps you make the most of
your talents?
How can you reduce the areas
where you are vulnerable?
How can you improve your ability
to cope with stress?
How can you deal with the risk of
something going wrong?
21. Radical Efficiency
1. Make true partnership with users the best
choice for everyone.
2. Enable committed, passionate and open-
minded leaders to emerge from anywhere.
3. Start with people’s quality of life not the
quality of your service.
4. Work with the grain and in the spirit of
families, friends and neighbors.
5. Manage risks, don’t just avoid them.
22. The answer is not within the existing system.
The existing system is the problem.
-- Doug Hall
23. System Leverage Points
12 Numbers. Constants and
parameters such as
subsidies, taxes, and standards
11 Buffers. The sizes of stabilizing
stocks relative to their flows
10 Stock-and-Flow Structures.
Physical systems and their nodes of
intersection
9 Delays. The lengths of time
relative to the rates of system
changes
24. System Leverage Points
8 Balancing Feedback Loops. The
strength of the feedbacks relative
to the impacts they are trying to
correct
7 Reinforcing Feedback Loops.
The strength of the gain of driving
loops
6 Information Flows. The
structure of who does and does
not have access to information
5 Rules.
Incentives, punishments, constrain
ts
25. System Leverage Points
4 Self-Organization. The
power to add, change, or
evolve system structure
3 Goals. The purpose or
function of the system
2 Paradigms. The mindset
out of which the system—its
goals, structure, rules, delays,
parameters—arises.
1 Transcending Paradigms
27. Hip hop is based on a
single, brilliant insight: while
musical instruments and musical
training are expensive and hard to
get, recorded music is ubiquitous.
So a group of mostly-
young, mostly-black, and mostly-
New York-based musicians started
using music to make music.
