Frances Westley Interview
November 26, 2008 01:57AM
Resilience Alliance board member Frances Westley holds a chair in social innovation at the University of Waterloo. She talks with Mark Sommer on the raido program A World of Possibilities (mp3).
Social innovation is a complex business — these problems are not simple problems. They’re not problems you can solve in deterministic, rational, straightforward ways. ...
So if you enter into that world ... there are certain kinds of rules and drivers in it. But it’s more about sensing them and aligning yourself with them, than it is about making them happen or moving the system in a very deliberate way. ...I think the best social innovators are prepared to pay not just the price of working all the time and not getting rich, but even the price of their convictions in order to truly create the change that they want.
In other words, they will change their minds.
