Hildy Gottlieb

Structure as an Active Participant in Organizational Success

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Creating the Future is at a jumping off point – a point where the results of our work are poised to scale exponentially to accomplish our mission. To facilitate that leap forward, on November 5th our community began discussing the question of organizational structure. (Watch or download and listen to that meeting here.) What form … Read more

Reinventing Organizations as Movements: Chloe Waretini (Making Change Broadcast)

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Being a living laboratory means Creating the Future is always seeking others who are experimenting with different organizational forms.   You can therefore imagine our joy to learn about the work being done at New Zealand based Enspiral!Per their website, “Enspiral is a bold experiment to create a collaborative network that helps people do meaningful work.” The … Read more

Reinventing Organizations as Movements: Jeanne Bell (Making Change Broadcast)

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“Is there a way to change your org into a unit of movement capacity and momentum?” That was the question posed by CompassPoint CEO Jeanne Bell when my article about “Organizations vs Movements” was posted at Stanford Social Innovation Review. As our own board at Creating the Future will continue its inquiry into this very … Read more

5 Crowdfunding Lessons

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Back in 2012, when Creating the Future had just wrapped up its 3rd successful scholarship campaign at StartSomeGood.com, we posted a “lessons learned” post, to share what was standing out for us from that campaign.  Fast forward to today, we are now in the early planning stages for our 4th crowdfunding effort in early 2016. It feels … Read more

Rethinking Boards from Scratch: If There Were No Such Thing as Boards, What Would We Build?

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It all started so simply. It was February of the still-new year 2015. Creating the Future’s board of directors was discussing its work plan for the year ahead. “What does the board wish to accomplish over the next 12 months? What are the most important questions for the board to consider in 2015, to ensure … Read more

Catalytic Thinking: A Framework for Creating and Scaling Powerful Results

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NOTE: This post is Part 2 of Creating the Future’s “Theory of Everything.” You will find Part 1 – the theory – at this post here. Catalytic Thinking is a set of practices that make explicit the simple factors that create positive results, so those results can be consistently replicated and scaled. The Back-Story In 1998, … Read more

Catalytic Thinking – A Practice for Bringing Out the Best in People and Situations

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People often ask about Creating the Future’s frameworks. They experience those frameworks in many ways – noticing a difference in the questions we ask and the results from those questions. And they are curious what is at the heart of that practice. The answer is what we call Catalytic Thinking. Catalytic Thinking is a practice … Read more

Leading a Movement (vs. an Org): June 2015 Board Meeting

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LISTEN TO THE MEETING HERE or Download the MP3 (To download to your hard drive, right-click {or click and hold on a Mac} on the link above and select “Save Target As”.. or “Save Link as”… depending on your browser) Creating the Future’s June board meeting will take place at this post on Monday, June … Read more