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Next week

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So as discussed in class, here’s what will happen next week.

  • For Tuesday, each of you will prepare three PowerPoint slides about a new (to the rest of the class) social entrepreneur that you have researched — doing work related to your topic — and whose experience can teach us something about social entrepreneurship and ‘Development 3.0’ that we don’t already know.  During Tuesday’s class, each of you will have five minutes (including brief questions from the rest of us) to present your slides.  (And please send them to me via email: I will place them all in a common folder)
  • On Thursday at 8:00 AM, I will send you the 24 hour take-home.  You will have until Friday at 8:00 AM to send your exam to me.  And as mentioned, the research that you do for Tuesday will help you to write a great exam on Thursday!

Please let me know if you have any questions, etc.  JTI

Hawken and Bornstein

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I think we need to do a better job in drawing out the themes and implications of Hawken’s provocative Blessed Unrest.  Here’s what I propose: as we read and discuss the material in Bornstein’s How to Change the World, let’s make a deliberate effort to connect the material there with material in Hawken’s book.  Please use this space to share your ideas on this, prior to Tuesday’s class.  And be specific as you analyze and critique the themes that the books have in common.

Finding the right balance between planning and searching

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That was an excellent class today!  Many thanks for all of your contributions ..  And we ended with the good discussion about ‘thinking like a clinician’ vs. ‘thinking like an ecologist.’  So what do you think?: if you ran an agency trying to promote sustainable development, would you appoint more clinicians or ecologists as planners; more clinicians or ecologists as searchers?  Share your thoughts!

And here’s another query for you: in the area and sector that you are studying, how do you find the right balance between planning and searching?  Moreover, how can you set up a process to improve well-being that (following Woolcock’s talk) has the promise of scale, is sensitive to the cultural context, and helps to manage conflict?  Again, please share your thoughts : )

(And as noted, here’s a nice blog that summarizes Easterly’s ideas of planning and searching.)