As we prepare for the April workshop From Self to Systems: Leadership for Collective Impact, we’ll be sharing materials and readings that will focus on the various aspects related to leading within collective impact.

Every Friday this month, we will share a few resources, curated by workshop faculty, that can help boost your capacity as well as provide a way to discuss these topics with workshop attendees and CI Forum members.

Leading Systems Pre-Reads

What does it mean to be a system leader? What does it take to catalyze collective leadership? These resources will provide some foundational background on how to begin thinking about system leadership.

1. The Dawn of System Leadership – In this Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Peter Senge, Hal Hamilton, and John Kania write about what distinguishes a system leader.
    
2. Catalyzing Collective Leadership – In this short video, a panel of leaders of Boston organizations reflect on what it takes to be a system leader and offer their perspectives on the importance of this thinking when working on critical social issues.

Hungry for more?

How System Leadership Applies to Collective Impact – In this video, Stacy Holland (The Lenfest Foundation) joins John Kania and Paul Schmitz in a thought-provoking (and often hilarious) discussion on the ins and outs of leading systems and what is needed from leaders to encourage system change.

What do you think?

What resonated with you from these resources?

What have you found to be the most useful when working within the "system" that surrounds the issue you and your partners are trying to change? What have you found to be the most challenging?