Let Stone Strategies help you figure out how to:

• Build awareness and better understand the politics (how power is used and decisions are made) impacting your work
• Strengthen your organization’s ability to build and foster networks that get results across multiple systems.
• Understand and operate with a systems-perspective
• Create a culture in which members achieve meaningful results.
• Maximize resources through partnerships that best serve customers and stakeholders

Organizations, and the people in them, operate in a complex web of political relationships within organizations, among organizations and their communities, and across levels of government. Research, systems and change theory and existing models for working within systems are all important tools in achieving desired results.

Leading organizations operate on the edge of and across boundaries, often in areas in which they have no direct authority. It is important to be able to recognize, shape and often recreate the system in which your organization operates and make boundaries permeable. Establishing formal and informal partnerships, alliances, and collaborative relationships are key to effective systems that allow you to get results.