Some questions for making change happen

• What’s the problem?
• What networks of people and things underlie the problem, and what context or environment are they embedded in?
• Who wins if you solve the problem?
• Who stands to lose?
• What’s in it for you? What else is in it for you?
• What or who is keeping you honest?
• Who else cares about this? Can you join them? Will they join you?
• What (potential) points of leverage can you identify?
• Is there a technical or technological fix?
• What are the key relationships, processes, and resources necessary to make the fix work?
• What are the key relationships, processes and resources for doing it again… And again? (What’s the wrapper?)
• What story do you need to tell, where and to whom, to make this thing happen?
• When will you stop?

Work through these questions, act on your guesses, then work through them again.