"And it further tries to show that we may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets."
Karl R. Popper. The Open Society and its Enemies 1 Plato.
Popper is talking about his critique of historicism -- those theories of inevitability and the working out of reason or unreason in history. Another way to read his statement is that we need to give up big visions disconnected from reality and focus on changing what is. Yet some argue that the end of Utopian thinking diminishes our imagination about what is possible.
Bob Giloth has worked for nonprofits for thirty years with a focus on community economic development. As a practitioner and social investor he is interested in the preconditions and challenges of good strategy and implementation -- values, partners, timing, complexity, and mistakes.
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