Humanity is grappling with the limits and potentially dire consequence of our current model of competition, conquest and consumption, and desperately needs an alternative vision. Dr. Montessori provided a vision for a global community and a peaceful world, as well as a method to bring this vision to fruition! What remains for us, is to organize our community and cultivate the unified cooperation required to bring this transforming education into the lives of more children!
Organizing for Change: Lessons Learned
by Laureen Golden, MEd, LISW
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
~African Proverb
Working together is indeed powerful ... but it can also be quite difficult, especially when we consider the
complexity of the problems we seek to address, and the diversity within our community. Our ability to aid
life and transform society hinges on our ability to stay cohesive despite these challenges. When working
together to create change, it is helpful to:
Tap our Collective Intelligence: A group can be amazingly intelligent -- smarter than its
smartest members -- IF we maintain:
*Diversity (of opinion, perspective, knowledge, experience, and resources),
*Independence in thinking (ensuring that no one is dominating others), and
*Decentralization (leveraging tacit knowledge), and
*Aggregation (mechanism for turning private judgments into collective decisions).
[The Wisdom of Crowds]
This is part one of an excellent article on organizations and how they can function. Look for part two tomorrow.
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