The Social Labs Revolution

This book provides decision makers with a practical guide to addressing complex challenges. It offers a clear-eyed, hopeful, and realistic approach that is timely and much needed. --Cherie Blair, CBE, QC, founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women Welcome to the social labs revolution--and to Zaid Hassan's splendid account from the front lines of this movement bringing new ways to tap and focus collective intelligence for systemic innovation. --Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability, MIT Sloan School of Management, and author of The Fifth Discipline This book should be compulsory reading for anyone whose ambition is to change the systems that perpetuate poverty and inequality rather than just to mitigate the symptoms. --Kate Wareing, Head of Innovation and Learning, Oxfam GB A profoundly important and timely book. Hassan has been at the center of the social labs revolution since its beginning and explains this powerful new approach to tackling the world's most pressing challenges in a clear, concise, and compelling fashion. --Joseph Jaworski, author of the international bestseller Synchronicity Zaid Hassan offers an innovative, powerful new approach for tackling our toughest global challenges and bringing about lasting social change. --Minh-Thu Pham, Director of Public Policy, United Nations Foundation Increasingly we face complex social problems that we can solve only through working together, not only with friends and colleagues but also with strangers and opponents. Zaid's book shows us a new way of doing so. It represents an important milestone in learning how to address our most profound challenges. --Adam Kahane, author of Solving Tough Problems, Power and Love and Transformative Scenario Planning We know that social, experimental, prototyping, and systemic approaches have worked in the Internet ecosystem and for entrepreneurs--Zaid Hassan's radical book shows us ho