Self-Organization Needs Activators: The 9% Who Turn Networks into Movements
Effective collaboration across networks of groups requires the network catalysts.
Effective collaboration across networks of groups requires the network catalysts.
*TLDR: When disaster strikes, vital information is lost in coordination gaps between national agencies, regional leaders, and local communities. To fix these dangerous mismatches,, we must make resources visible, communication clear, and power more balanced. Strategic network design holds the key.
Un-breaking our social networks requires fundamentally different architectures than the defaults currently used to build most tools for coordination.
As the world gets more complex and connected, calls to coordinate increase. But why? What does coordination allow us to do together that we cannot do alone?
Myth: People at the top of any given company or power structure deserve to be there because they are somehow smarter and better than everyone else.
The science of ProSocial focuses on fostering social conditions where individual and group interests are integrated and balanced, such that cooperative behaviors are reinforced above selfish ones. Prosocial groups act as a single organism, rather than a collection of individuals.