Here's a recent slideshow on how networks can lead to rapid transforomation. Text that accompanies the presentation can be found at http://www.scribd.com/doc/26169282/The-End-of-Foot-Binding-in-China

1. Network
Case
Study
June
Holley,
Network
Weaver
june@networkweaving.com
January
2010

2. How
do
you
make
a
difference?

3. Footbinding
in
China
lasted
1000
years

4. 1895
Change
begins

5. 1930s

6. Until 1850s, China was very isolated

7. Westerners
arrive:
adamant
that
foot
binding
not
okay

8. Lesson
1:
You
need
different
and/or
outside
perspectives
to
make
breakthroughs

9. Who
is
Alicia
Little?

10. Lesson
2:
Even
one
energetic
and
persistent
person,
acting
as
a
catalyst,
can
start
transformational
change
But….
Network
leaders
are
often
not
the
highly
visible
individuals:
find
people
who
are
acting
as
a
catalysts,
because
they
have
the
potential
to
start
transformational
change

11. Formed
a
group
that
included
a
wide
range
of
energetic
and
skilled
women
-­‐-­‐
including
missionaries,
influential
Chinese,
and
influential
foreigners
-­‐-­‐
to
experiment
as
catalysts

12. Lesson
3:
• Need
diversity
in
your
network
to
get
best
and
most
appropriate
ideas
• Need
people
who
can
access
many
different
networks
• Need
people
with
energy,
willing
to
act

13. Lesson
3
(for
foundations):
Instead
of
funding
organizations,
support
collaboratives
that
are
spanning
organizational
and
different
worlds
and
that
what
to
experiment
and
act
as
catalysts
Fund
the
collaborative
catalyst
role
Fund
experimentation
not
a
plan

14. Slogan
Reframing
Footbinding
Li
Hongzhang

15. Lesson
4:
• Get
high
powered
support
in
the
periphery
of
network
• Develop
core
ideas
in
simple
ways
so
they
spread
through
peer
networks
• Provide
support
to
train
and
coach
collaboratives
to
identify
and
build
relationships
with
Influentials
• Provide
support
to
help
collabortives
develop
core
ideas
in
simple
ways
so
they
spread
through
peer
networks

16. Experiments:
Collected
money
for
dowries
for
girls
with
unbound
feet
Prizes
for
best
poems,
slogans
and
tracts

17. 8000
poems
&
pamphlets
in
2
years
Initial
Tract

18. Lesson
5:
• Encourage
continual
stream
of
creativity
and
engagement
by
ever
larger
network
• Restructure
money
to
support
many
new
ideas
and
collaborations
• Provide
funds
for
Innovation
Funds
that
encourage
a
continual
stream
of
creativity
and
engagement
by
ever
larger
network
• Restructure
money
to
support
many
new
ideas
and
collaborations

19. Public
meetings
where
people
committed
to
not
bind
girls’
feet
and
not
let
sons
marry
women
with
bound
feet
Explained
how
to
set
up
Anti-­‐footbinding
Association

20. Lesson
6:
• Help
expand
the
network
and
encourage
experimenting
to
make
breakthroughs
• Notice
what
works
• Emphasize
the
importance
of
deep
reflection
to
identify
“patterns
of
success”

22. Lesson
7:
• Spread
ideas
that
work
by
moving
into
new
networks
• Spread
ideas
by
encouraging
and
supporting
people
to
collaborate
and
self-­‐organize
• Once
collaboratives
have
identified
“patterns
of
success”,
provide
resources
to
spread
those
patterns
by
moving
into
new
networks
• Have
resources
to
encourage
and
support
expanded
collaboration
and
self-­‐organization

23. Impact
in
Conservative
Rural
District
1889
99%
bound
1899
94%
bound
1919
0%
bound