“We belong to one another.
No exceptions.”
The RealityThe challenges we face don’t care for the lines we’ve drawn between ourselves.
As communities, cities, counties, and regions, we’re facing challenges that we can’t afford not to address.
Pandemics, crime, homelessness, healthcare outcomes, polarization, housing affordability, and natural disasters. The list goes on.
But collaboration - even between two teams in a local government department - can often feel deeply fraught, perhaps even impossible.
Yes, there are factors outside our control - legislation, regulation, industry - that contribute, but that’s not the whole story.
Within our locus of control sit endless large and small ‘design choices’ that can change the game.
They’re hidden in plain sight and going to waste.
This will not do. And it doesn’t have to be this way.
“Every system is perfectly designed for the results it gets.”
W. Edward Demings
To move the needle on the challenges we face together, to achieve outcomes as communities that we care deeply about, we have to learn how to approach our collaborative efforts with the lens of system designers.
We have to get and stay curious about why we’re each showing up the way we are, and design differently to encourage a different result.
Like gardeners, tending an ecosystem.
That’s what The Calyx helps you learn to do.