How might we...

• Practice/Emergence: How might we practice the five elements?
  • How might we learn about and practice networked governance?

Hypothesis

If we engage in ongoing learning and practice through experimentation with ourselves, staff, and partners, we will be better able to govern and partner in networked ways through complexity in the direction of our vision.

Design

We will engage in ongoing experiments that are sub experiments to this meta-question.

 

Here are some of our guiding principles/ideas as well as early ideas about success metrics.

 

• What would disprove this journey for us? What would really tell us this isn’t working? If no one outside MAG cares then we are failing.
• We’ve carved out what we think is a pathway for success knowing that we can’t predict it and making suspect traditional management by objectives – Are we looking at the right evidence?
• We aim to be ambitious, groundbreaking, innovative, wildly creative and we hope shape-shifting for the sector – Are we continuously talking about new ideas and making the adjustments to keep trying new ideas?
• As a board, are we talking about new ways of being on this journey is not getting into operational planning only. Networked governance.
• Am I understanding what’s going on with staff with relationship to being broken? How support staff to confront what’s going on with balance? How do we know enough about the people to know about the people part of the sustainability question?

Possible categories/areas for reflection learning.

• Leadership & stewardship
  • Am I acting with honesty and integrity
  • Building effective community
• Communication & decision making
  • Effective communication
  • Listing
  • Soliciting input

• Initiative & quality – how are we showing up as board members
  • What do I want to learn
  • What do we want to learn
  • Am I committing adequately in a way that meets MAG’s need
• Resources & operations
  • Do I/we have sufficient to knowledge of MAGs operations
  • Am I/Are we aware of MAG’s needs and meeting them?
  • Audit process/budget?
  • Am I/ Are we Effective Ambassadors & Network Weavers?

 

 

 

Metrics

The sub questions and sub experiments will indicate what the metrics will be for this meta question.

Decisions

Questions