Solving The World's Biggest Problems Takes Ensembles, Not Soloists

Solving The World's Biggest Problems Takes Ensembles, Not Soloists:

"The Takeaways:

•  No single individual, organization, corporation, foundation, or nation can solve the significant problems of the world. So let’s stop looking for heroes to address the important issues of our day. Instead, let’s focus on the bringing together the teams of organizations and individuals that must collaborate to address problems. 
• Start by identifying an honest broker to coordinate the collaboration—a person who is widely trusted and highly skilled in building partnerships. He or she will gather the limited funding needed to hold the collaboration together and measure its progress to common goals, the collaborative glue. 
• Next, put together a Key Influencer Map to identify the people and organizations that need to be involved. Then meet with those influencers to launch a collaboration. If the problem doesn’t have a widely-accepted solution, the discussions may be heated—which may force you to simplify your goal or accept a partial solution on the way to your ultimate objective. 
• Meeting periodically to share knowledge and measure progress can be useful. But deep collaboration is much more likely to produce fundamental/sustainable change."

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