With access to so much data and the best people in the system there to provide even more information, I still cannot get a sense of what goes on, at the ground level. If I see the schools that I am shown on the one end of the spectrum and if I ask the questions I know to ask the officials from 15 years of feild experience, I will be successful in stirring up a little more detail. But for a practioner like me, its all too airy fairy.
It has been a privilege and pleasure to mentor leaders as they define their journey. My interest being in scaling up while maintaining quality, the journeys have been about learning how to nurture the small, backyard, organically, intuitively seeded large family to learning how to lead institutions across states. Very often the business of going to scale is thought to be about the numbers - the targets and the money that backs that objective. The product is a concern as far as it supports the former. Organisations make decisions around which to work with first - the numbers, the money, the product. That the product itself is the result of processes and systems is recognized but is slotted lower down the list of priorities because the money is not dependent on it. The end product is all that needs to be in place - that too, to the extent to which the donor world is interested. And its not very interested at all. Gen1Can works with the reality of the variables abo...
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