True! I may not have made it clear that this is talking about strategies for including a whole system (or a representative microcosm of it) in the work of shifting its own patterns. In social complexity, it is essential to include people as participants in the shaping of their own futures.

When I wrote parts 2 and 3 of this series, I had to choose who to write to. I deliberately wrote to people who are already engaged in systems-shifting work, in work that gathers people from across the many parts of a system or social situation and treats them as peers in co-creation. For the long haul. Those are the folks I believe will be most excited about a diagramming language for participation strategy.

Most corporate efforts are not there yet, though I think that will change. Policy-makers are a bit ahead of that curve, as are people working in international development, social justice, sustainability, community, public health, place-making,….

That said, we are already applying this stuff to corporate situations. But the diagrams are short because corporate horizons tend to be only three months. :-/