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by Greg Satell


  and alpha model, 62–64

  and beta model, 64–65

  and creation of cascades, 66–68

  effective, 153–156

  and existing institutions, 151–152

  history of, 52–60

  leaders’ roles in, 164–168

  Stanley Milgram and, 51–52

  Otpor movement and, 156–164

  AnnaLee Saxenian and, 150–151

  small-world, 60–65, 149, 154

  Tea Party and, 152–153

  true power from, 79

  Rick Warren and, 147–150

  Duncan Watts and, 49–50

  as way of seeing things, 68–71

  The New Argonauts (Saxenian), 150

  New York General Assembly, 2

  The New York Times, 122, 134, 149, 151, 213

  Newsom, Gavin, 203–204, 215, 228

  Newsweek, 205

  NHS (National Health Service), 198–199, 234

  Niche competitors, 86–87

  Night Stalkers, 111

  9/11 attacks, 155

  1989 revolutions, 28

  No-drinking rule, 36, 44, 48, 86

  Nocera, Joe, 122, 151–152

  Nonviolent campaigns, 196

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 27, 30, 214

  Novi Sad, Serbia, 208

  Novoye Vremya, 222

  NUL (National Urban League), 124, 167

  Numbers (TV series), 47

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 165

  Obama, Barack, 31, 43, 44, 215, 218

  “Obedience to authority” experiments, 51

  Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop, 210

  Occupy Wall Street:

  cooperation of, with existing institutions, 151–152

  failure of, 21, 68–70, 90–92, 136, 154, 179, 186–187

  members of, 103

  need for leader in, 220

  networks in, 9

  participation in, 199–200, 202

  Srdja Popovíc and, 117

  popularity of, 1–3, 5, 20

  slogan of, 121–122, 126

  Office for Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), 13

  O&I (Operations and Intelligence) forum, 207–210, 234

  Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 153

  Olsen, Ken, 13

  Olson, Ted, 205

  One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams (Fussell), 207

  100Kin10 movement, 22, 98, 165, 209, 218, 234

  140journos, 202

  O’Neill, Paul, 22, 116, 121, 138, 164, 184–186, 212, 229, 235

  OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) loop, 210

  Open Society Foundation, 223

  Operations and Intelligence (O&I) forum, 207–210, 234

  Opinion leaders, 75–77, 79, 82

  Orange Revolution:

  aftermath of, 159, 213–215

  change caused by, 57, 64

  connections in, 84–86, 89

  Euromaidan protests vs., 129, 222, 223, 229

  Leonid Kuchma’s corruption and, 227

  participation in, 78, 79, 197

  start of, 27–35, 70

  victory phase of, 235

  Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), 160

  Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, 69

  OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), 160

  Oscillation, coupled, 47–50, 60

  OSRD (Office for Scientific Research and Development), 13

  Otpor Mothers, 164

  Otpor movement:

  arrests during, 138

  barrel prank from, 2–5, 201–202, 210, 234

  connections in, 85

  consideration of different viewpoints in, 185

  and fall of Miloševíc, 218

  founders of, 159, 161–164

  humor in, 91–93

  identifying trigger of, 212

  mission statement of, 163

  networking meetings of, 208, 209

  and networks, 68, 156–164

  Pillars of Support in, 132–133

  Recruit-Train-Act triangle of, 199

  success of, 20, 21

  training for, 233

  Our Ukraine (Nasha Ukraina), 31, 38

  “Outside agitator,” 104, 144

  Pacino, Al, 153

  Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), 176

  Parks, Rosa, 146

  Participation, within movements, 196–203

  Party of Regions (Ukraine), 32, 38, 129

  Path lengths (see Six degrees of separation)

  Patriotism, 209

  PepsiCo, 6

  Percolating cluster, 84–85

  Perry, Mark, 18

  Phases, of successful movements, 211–212

  Pillars of Support:

  within Freedom Charter, 172

  importance of, 132–138, 151, 211, 212, 232

  for Nashville Student Movement, 144, 146

  and shared values, 187

  Pinchuk, Viktor, 128–129

  Pipe Dream (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 153

  Planning (see Making a plan)

  Planters Association, 104

  Platform(s), 189–212, 234

  for governance/cohesion/coordination, 205–209

  for participation and mobilization, 196–203

  and phases of successful movements, 211–212

  reactions to, 203–205

  and Schwerpunkt strategy, 210–211

  of Solidarity movement, 189–196

  Political homogeneity, 81

  Popovíc, Srdja:

  and anti-Milošević protests, 156–162

  on Belgrade protests, 190

  and CANVAS, xiii, 180

  and creating meaningful change, 117, 228

  and “horizontal copy-paste,” 208

  on humor, 3

  on importance of values, 217–218

  and Otpor movement, 167, 185

  and Pora! movement, 31

  and “power graph” exercise, 135–136

  on purposes of protest tactics, 201

  on sharing values, 128

  on Spectrum of Allies, 127

  on successful movements, 236

  on victory phase, 216

  Pora! movement, 31, 37–38, 44, 79

  Poroshenko, Petro, 34, 221, 225, 226

  Porter, Michael, 17

  “Power graph” exercise, 135–136

  Princeton University, 47

  Prisoner’s Dilemma, 111–112, 186

  Program of Action (African National Congress Youth League), 171

  Proposition 8 (California Constitution), 177, 204, 205, 212, 215, 228

  Protest(s):

  emotional response to, 164

  horn, 36–37, 44, 48, 86

  student, 139–146, 158–159

  walking, 195

  See also specific protests, e.g.: Euromaidan

  Purna Swaraj, 97, 107

  Purpose, shared, 111–114, 116

  The Purpose of Life (Warren), 149

  Putin, Vladimir, 224

  Q metric, 154–155

  Q Network, 165

  Quantum Experience, 165–166

  Radio Free Europe, 191, 193

  Randolph, A. Philip, 123–124, 167

  Random-biased nets, 62

  Rao, Huggy, 181

  Rapoport, Anatol, 58–62, 65

  “Rare qualities,” 78, 83–84

  “Razom nas bahato” chants, 37, 44, 48, 86

  Reagan, Ronald, 131

  Recruit-Train-Act (RAT) triangle, 157, 163, 199, 233

  Reform, criminal justice, 136–137

  Regional Advantage (Saxenian), 150

  Relationships, 59–60, 113

  Rényi, Alfréd, 55–58, 60, 65

  The Revolution of Dignity, 222 (See also Euromaidan protests)

  Revolutions, 27–46

  aftermath of, 37–41

  color, 28, 31

  inevitability of, 41–46

  self-organizing, 34–37

  See
also specific revolutions, e.g.: Orange Revolution

  Rid, Thomas, 43

  Rivonia trial, 175

  Rockefeller, John D., 16

  Rodgers, Richard, 153

  Rogers, Everett, 87–88

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 143

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 123

  Rosenberg, Tina, 158

  Route 128 corridor, 14–15, 18, 20, 22, 34, 42, 57, 68–70, 92, 155

  The Rowlatt Acts, 105, 108

  Rowling, J. K., 67

  Ruslana, 35

  Russia, 27, 52–53

  Ruvinsky, Eddie, 180

  Sabotage Act, 175

  SACP (South African Communist Party), 171, 173

  Saddleback Church, 22, 149, 152, 167, 185, 233

  SAIC (South African Indian Congress), 171

  St. Petersburg Academy, 53

  Salesmen, 74, 77–78

  Salt, 98–99, 108–111, 113, 116

  Same-sex marriage, 118, 177, 203, 215, 228

  Sanders, Bernie, 179, 200

  Santelli, Rick, 152

  SASO (South African Students’ Organisation), 175

  Satyagraha, 41, 100–103, 105, 107–110, 127, 139, 185, 228

  Satyagraha Sabha, 106–107

  Saxenian, AnnaLee, xii–xiii, 13, 150–151

  SBU (Ukrainian security service), 134

  Scaling Up Excellence (Sutton and Rao), 181

  School for Change Agents, 199

  Schwerpunkt strategy, 210–211

  SCLC (see Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

  Self-organizing cascades, 34–37

  7-Eleven, 5

  Shabunin, Vitaliy, 223–226

  Shared consciousness, 111–114, 116, 172, 185–187

  Shared purpose, 111–114, 116

  Shared values, 220–221

  Sharpeville massacre, 173

  Shepherd, Nick, 9

  Shevardnadze, Eduard, 31

  Shukla, Raj Kumar, 103

  Shymkiv, Dmytro, 222

  Silicon Valley:

  and networks, 155

  and Route 128 corridor, 14–16, 18, 20, 57, 235

  AnnaLee Saxenian on, 150–151

  success of, 22, 68–70, 79, 91, 92

  Simon Commission, 107–108

  Sisi, Abdel Fattah el-, 215

  Sisulu, Walter, 169–171, 173

  Sit-ins, 139–146, 211

  Six degrees of separation, 50, 61, 78

  Six Degrees of Separation (Guare), 47

  Skocpol, Theda, 152

  “Slacktivism,” 202

  Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 154–155

  Sloan, Alfred, 16

  Slovo, Joe, 173

  Small-world networks, 60–65, 149, 154

  Small-world phenomenon, 51–52, 58, 78

  Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 102, 127–128, 170

  SNCC (see Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

  Social media, 125, 126, 202–203 (See also specific platforms, e.g.: Facebook)

  Solidarity movement, 189–196

  Sommer, Susan, 204

  Soros, George, 223

  The Soul of America (Meacham), 220

  The Sound of Music (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 153

  South Africa, 99–101, 103, 105, 148, 156, 169–170, 176, 206

  South African Communist Party (SACP), 171, 173

  South African Indian Congress (SAIC), 171

  South African Students’ Organisation (SASO), 175

  South Ossetia, 27

  South Pacific (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 153

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 124, 167, 177

  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 147

  Soviet Union, 29

  S&P 500, 18

  Special Forces, U.S., 10–12, 111, 113, 206

  Spectrum of Allies:

  and John Boyd, 134, 135

  importance of, 126–132, 211, 212, 232

  isolating your, 200–201

  of Nashville Student Movement, 143–144, 146

  of Occupy Wall Street movement, 154

  of Otpor movement, 161

  for same-sex marriage, 204

  and shared values, 185–187

  “Spinney Report,” 134

  Spiro, Janet, 153

  “Stack of business processes,” 115

  Stahlman, James, 143–144

  Stalin, Iosif, 29

  Stanford University, xii, 151, 181

  The Statesman, 99

  STEM, xiii, 22, 98, 165, 209, 218

  Stephan, Maria, 196–198, 209

  Strategic social location, 77

  “Strength of weak ties,” 60, 65, 82, 84

  Strikes, 191–194

  Strogatz, Steven, 47, 49, 61, 65, 154

  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 124, 146, 167, 177, 233

  Suffragists, 182

  Suggestion, 80–81

  Sunden, Jed, xi–xiii, 30, 32

  Sunni uprising (Iraq), 22

  Support (see Pillars of Support)

  Surviving victory, 213–226, 235–236

  and becoming the change you want to see, 217–220

  as commitment to shared values, 220–221

  and dangers of victory, 215–216

  and ongoing struggles, 221–226

  Sutton, Robert, 181

  Sych, Vitaliy, 33, 213–214, 221–222, 226

  Taco Bell, 6, 86

  Tagore, Rabindranath, 98

  @TahrirSupplies, 202

  Tambo, Oliver, 169–170

  Tea Party, 43, 69, 152–153, 210

  Team of Teams (McChrystal), 111

  Technology, and movements, 125, 126

  Tennessean, 144

  Threshold model:

  of cascades, 85–86, 88, 90

  of collective behavior, 82–83

  Time magazine, 109, 134

  The Tipping Point (Gladwell), 74, 75

  Tolstoy, Leo, 70

  Total Access initiative, 9, 216

  Toys “R” Us, 7, 86–87

  Transparency International, 224

  Triadic closure, 58

  Truman, Harry, 137

  Trump, Donald, 38, 43, 44, 116, 126, 170, 215

  Truth force (see Satyagraha)

  Tufekci, Zeynep, 202

  Twitter, 78, 202

  Twitter and Tear Gas (Tufekci), 202

  Two Step Flow Communication Model, 75–77

  Tyabji, Abbas, 109–110

  Tymoshenko, Yulia, 29–31, 35, 37–39, 214–215, 226, 235

  Ukrainian security service (SBU), 134

  Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth), 30

  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), 173–176

  Under Armour, 207

  United Party (South Africa), 170

  United Way, 17

  University Hospital Leicester, 198–199

  University of Belgrade, 156, 162, 217

  University of California, Berkeley, xiii, 151

  University of Chicago, 58

  University of Michigan, 18

  University of Oxford, 165

  “Untouchables,” 102, 103, 107, 167, 205

  USAID, 223

  Uzzi, Brian, 153

  Vakarchuk, Slava, 35

  Value chains, 17

  Values, 169–187, 227–236

  of Stephen Biko, 175–177

  indoctrinating genomes of, 233–234

  keystone change(s), 230–231

  making a plan, 232

  of Nelson Mandela, 169–175

  network(s), 232–233

  personification of, 76

  platform(s), 234

  and reactions to change, 227–229

  as rules for adaptation, 177–185

  shared, 220–221

  and shared consciousness, 185–187

  of successful movements, 229–230

  surviving victory, 217–218, 235–236

  training to internalize, 179–182

  tying change to, 182–185

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 16
/>   Vanderbilt Divinity School, 139, 144

  Vanderbilt University, 146

  Viacom, 7, 8

  Victory, surviving (see Surviving victory)

  Victory phase, 212

  Vietnam War, 156

  “Vision of tomorrow,” 161, 171, 178

  Voice of America, 193

  Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), 42

  Voting rights, for women, 98, 118, 120, 182

  Walentynowicz, Anna, 192–193

  Walesa, Lech, 27, 193–194, 220, 228

  Walking protests, 195

  Walking with the Wind (Lewis), 121

  Wang Laboratories, 14

  Warren, Rick, 22, 147–150, 167, 185, 233

  Warsaw University, 190

  Watts, Duncan:

  on dynamics of cascades, 90

  on influential people, 74

  on information cascades, 73

  on networks, 49–50

  and phase transition, 57–58

  and power relationships, 154

  and small-world networks, 60–67, 181

  and small-world phenomenon, 52

  West, Ben, 143, 145

  White, Micah, 2

  Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance (Gerstner), 114–115

  Wilkins, Roy, 124, 167

  Williamson, Vanessa, 152

  Willis, Bruce, 153

  Wilson, Woodrow, 182

  The Wilson Quarterly (Rid), 43

  Wladawsky-Berger, Irving, 115, 219

  Women’s suffrage movement, 118, 231

  Woolworth’s shop, 141

  Workers Defense Committee (KOR), 191, 193

  World War I, 105

  World War II, 13, 29, 160, 170

  Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, 118–119, 121, 166, 167, 183, 209, 231

  Yanukovych, Oleksandr, 39

  Yanukovych, Viktor, 67, 78, 144

  and Leonid Kuchma, 32

  and Orange Revolution, 235

  political rebirth of, 214–215, 228

  as president of Ukraine, 38–41, 222, 226

  public opinion of, 129–130

  Young, Whitney, Jr., 124, 167

  YouTube, 40

  Yushchenko, Viktor:

  failures of, 227–228

  and Orange Revolution, 34, 37–38, 235

  as president of Ukraine, 214, 222, 226

  as prime minister of Ukraine, 29, 31

  Zajedno, 158–159, 215

  Zuccotti Park (New York City), 1–2, 20, 90, 136, 200, 202

  Zuckerberg, Mark, 18

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Greg Satell (Gladwyne, PA) is a popular writer, speaker, innovation advisor, and one of today’s most recognized experts on transformational change. Previously, as co-CEO of KP Media, a $100 million enterprise, he managed a portfolio of Ukrainian media brands, including Kyiv Post and Korrespondent, two news organizations that played pivotal roles in the Orange Revolution.

 

 

 


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