Dennis Williams's Blog (5)

In many places in the world, water is unclean b/c people take out the ecosystem that cleans it. Thus, the rivers only flow after rains and then go dry. When they do flow, they are filled with silt and all kinds of effluent. When people reserve the forests in the mountain highlands, they can go up into the forest and tap springs for fresh water.



This little youtube video clip show low-tech, locally developed infrastructure to… Continue

I live in Oklahoma, USA, immortalized in musical culture by Rogers and Hammerstein's musical, in which performers belted out lyrics that would become the state's official song "Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains...," as well as performers asking "why can't farmers and cow-men just be friends?" Oklahoma is still a predominantly rural state with a high Native American population, significant rural poverty, and depopulation of the country-side as rural youth move to… Continue

In the 2020, I've mastered the art of "promiscuous triading" a term coined by John King to indicate a mode of behavior in which a person is always working to connect other people together who share similar goals in order to boost their potential to accomplish great things.



I am imagining myself as a leader in a liberal arts college that has a deep network of alumni and students whose lives have been transformed by their experience in a community that values clear thinking, hospitality… Continue

As a senior partner at CultureSync, John King, along with David Logan and Haley Fischer-Wright studied a wide array of organizations in the practice of coaching them to become better at what they do. They observed that organizations possessed dominant organizational cultures that either empowered them to achieve great things or constrained them from being effective. They categorized these organizational cultures in terms of "tribal" stages. They found… Continue

I'm inspired to link two things as I explore becoming a social innovator:

1) culture matters; and

2) sharing = contributing and being contributed to.



The way I link these things is:



Culture supports behavior. It supports both positive and negative behavior. Social innovators often notice negative behaviors and set about creating a solution for them. Because culture is the lattice upon which our of lives are organized, most people are relatively conservative when they… Continue