Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

by Adrienne Maree Brown

How do we turn our collective full-bodied intelligence towards collaboration, if that is the way we will survive?

Dandelions don’t know whether they are a weed or a brilliance. But each seed can create a field of dandelions. We are invited to be that prolific. And to return fertility to the soil around us.

There is always enough time for the right work.

What is easy is sustainable. Birds coast when they can.

As an individual, get really good at being intentional with where you put your energy, letting go as quickly as you can of things that aren’t part of your visionary life’s work. Then you can give your all, from a well-resourced place, when the storm comes, or for those last crucial miles.