Tag: Multisolving
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Multisolving: Going Forth
We have reached the end of this multisolving journey, chronicling answers to each of Elizabeth Sawin’s reflections at the chapter ends of her book Multisolving. The last chapter, aptly titled Going Forth, wraps up the content and ends with a much needed prompt when working towards positive change–“Most of All, Keep Going”. This prompt is…
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Multisolving in Tumultuous Times
The chapter on Multisolving in tumultuous times from Elizabeth Sawin’s book Multisolving feels ever more relevant this year. It builds upon all the content in the book “to help bolster the flexibility and resilience of your multisolving efforts so that they can best meet unpredictable and even destabilizing conditions.” The start to 2025 feels like…
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Multisolving and Equity
In Elizabeth Sawin’s book Multisolving she dedicates an entire chapter to equity, the only element of multisolving that has it’s own chapter highlighting its importance. While we all move through the same systems, we don’t all move through them or experience them the same way. It challenges the way we think about systems in order…
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Multisolving: In Action
By Chapter 9 of Multisolving by Elizabeth Sawin readers have learned all the major concepts of multisolving and the connection to systems with this approach. When put into action there are numerous considerations and many expected results. The process can become cyclical, with much of the work happening behind the scenes or below the surface.…
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Multisolving: Steering Systems
Elizabeth Sawin in her book Multisolving acknowledges that systems cannot easily be created or destroyed, but that there are ways to steer systems in a better direction. Chapter 8 of her book is devoted to the strategies for steering systems and ends with how to steer systems with multisolving in mind. I would agree that…
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Multisolving: Complex Systems
Chapter seven of Multisolving by Elizabeth Sawin acknowledges the fact that systems are complex and the behavior of complex systems often leads to people giving up any efforts to try to assert influence. The systems stance is discussed which is comprised of a series of elements: Elizabeth’s first question for reflection is to analyze which…
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Multisolving and the Role of Feedback Loops
In Chapter Five of Elizabeth Sawin’s book Multisolving, she asks readers to reflect on effective balancing feedback operating in either their life or work and what brings the system back into balance when destabilized. In my last post I discussed the idea of reinforcing feedback loops, a change in one direction creating more change in…
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Multisolving: Flows
Continuing on with the reading reflections in Elizabeth Sawin’s book Multisolving, Chapter Three is on Flows, processes that move and are measured in units of stuff per unit of time. As she mentions in the book, we tend to focus only on stocks and ignore the flows, to our detriment. If we ignore them too…
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Mutlisolving: Stocks
Stocks are basically anything that can be measured or counted, such as a fleet of buses or a pond. An example of an important stock in the world is the level of CO2 in the atmosphere which is steading filling at an ever increasing rate. In Chapter 2 of Elizabeth Sawin’s book Multisolving, she introduces…
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Understanding Multisolving in Complex Systems
Multisolving is exactly as it sounds, its a way to solve multiple problems by approaching an issue with the understanding that it is part of a complex interconnected system. This method is discussed in detail by Elizabeth Sawin in her book Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World. What I love about her book…
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