We have developed a comprehensive theory of change, and have a multi-year plan for validating it.
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Before we got into the actual exercises to learn this concept, the delegates spent some time fleshing out the context and importance of a systemic theory of change.
The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy.
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An early stage nonprofit or social enterprise may need board members who are willing to devote considerable hands-on time to building the business plan, theory of change, and strategy.
We found five interrelated criteria that form a new blueprint for how corporations can maximize their investments in CSR: business-based social purpose, clear theory of change, quality and depth of information, concentrated effort, and partnering with experts.
Traditionally, brand was essentially viewed as a communication and fundraising tool, but we found that a new paradigm was emerging where brand was increasingly being considered in a strategic way, fundamentally anchored in the mission and values of an organization and critical at every step in the theory of change of an organization.
With all 74 seats up for grabs that could, in theory, mean wholesale change.
Scientists have been working on the theory of Anthropogenic Climatic Change (ACC) for over 100 years.
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In my book Theory ZYX Of Successful Change Management, I outlined 33 laws of change management.
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If there were really a truly gigantic flaw in the theory of Anthropogenic Climatic Change, it would be pretty clear by now, things would simply not be adding up across all of these fields of inquiry.
In theory, share prices should change only if there is fresh news affecting valuations.
The panel basically acknowledged that what sounds great in theory would entail a tough culture change.
Would companies ever be receptive to the idea of embedding journalists in their organizations to test the theory of transparency and therefore influence change?
Far from being the force for change envisioned by Samuel Huntington and other advocates of modernization theory, the middle class in many young democracies is now actually acting as a brake on change.
In theory, if just two senators in Washington change their minds, there will be enough votes in the country's legislatures to amend the constitution for only the 28th time in two centuries.
Nudge theory is seen as a way of encouraging behavioural change without resorting to bans or increased regulation.
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Meanwhile, Austrian theory focuses on the way changes of interest rates change the pattern of investment in capital goods.
Kelly Baerwaldt, a fisheries biologist and Asian carp program manager for the Army Corps who supports the alternative-source theory, said the new report didn't change her mind.
These people believe in the Technological Singularity theory: The possibility that technologically augmented intelligence will change human life as we know it or possibly wipe it out completely.
The theory is that firms would hire more staff and the change would make the UK a more attractive place to start and grow a business.
Fine in theory, but many African governments argued that such profound change could only be made by governments that did not have to face angry voters at the polls.
His theory is people need to rewire their brains to achieve the change necessary to escape the repetitive habits of slum life.
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Moreover, BGI wants to change business for good but teaches the same neoclassical economic theory that justified policies and actions that led to the great recession.
This concern prompted 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts to send a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on April 10, admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change, while neglecting basic empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.
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Another change involves teacher training, which used to focus on educational theory but ignore practical techniques for keeping order in class.
In this study, we adopt the logic of upper echelons theory to expand understanding of how executive personality shapes organizational responses to radical change.
Scientists aren't certain that climate change is to blame, but that's the most popular theory.
And one of my favorites, the Volkswagen fun theory, inspired some positive social re-engineering by using play as the motivator to behavior change.
Because as economists have found and explained through signaling theory and conspicuous conservation, making your socially-focused choices visible can motivate long-term behavior change.
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