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Re-Imagine Impact:It’s Easy If You Try

Sundance Documentary Film ProgramJanuary 23, 2012

John BareThe Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

jbare@ambfo.com404.367.2062

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Scene IHero: I have a…. METRIC?

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Scene IIThe Villain: Show me the logic model.

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Scene IIThe Villain: Show me the logic model.

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Scene IIIOutsmarting the bad guy.

Simple, Complicated and Complex ProblemsSIMPLE

Following a Recipe

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Sending a Rocket to the

Moon

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Raising a Child

Adapted from Getting to Maybe, Westley, Zimmerman, Patton (2006, Random House Canada)

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Fit evaluation to the nature of the system.Simple, Complicated and Complex Problems

SIMPLEFollowing a Recipe

COMPLICATEDSending a Rocket to the Moon

COMPLEXRaising a Child

The recipe is essential Formulae are critical and necessary

Formulae have a limited application

Recipes are tested to assure easy replication

Sending one rocket increases assurance that the next will be OK

Raising one child provides experience but no assurance of success with the next

No particular expertise is required. But cooking expertise increases success rate

High levels of expertise in a variety of fields are necessary for success

Expertise can contribute but is neither necessary nor sufficient to assure success

Recipes produce standardized products

Rockets are similar in critical ways

Every child is unique and must be understood as an individual

The best recipes give good results every time

There is a high degree of certainty of outcome

Uncertainty of outcome remains

Notes the quantity and nature of “parts” needed

Separate into parts and then reassemble and co-ordinate

Can’t separate the parts from the whole; essence exists “in the between” in the relationship between elements.

Adapted from Getting to Maybe, Westley, Zimmerman, Patton (2006, Random House Canada)

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Re-Imagine Impact: Change the flow of power, influence and knowledge

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“The Apple Pushers” (Mary Mazzio, 2011)

Bankers

Street Food Coalition

College Students

Neighborhood Grocers

Elected Officials

Foundations

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Re-Imagine Impact.

Change =Dissatisfaction *

Vision *Process

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C = D * V * P

Adapted from Bob Bontempo, Columbia University Business School

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Are you helping to create Dissatisfaction?

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Are you building support for a Vision?

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Are you implementing a Process?

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