“I care very little about ‘theories of change’. You can put together a narrative showing how anything can achieve anything so they just don’t update me much. To me, a concise story with a concrete datum or two is worth a thousand nodes on a flow chart. (I haven’t spoken to anyone else who seems to feel this way, and the community seems to be moving in a theory-of-changeward direction, so I’m curious if anyone reading this feels the same?”
I completely agree with this—in the GHD, social Enterprise work a lot of weight seems to be put on theoru of change and I don’t buy it. It just favors the best storytellers. Of course you HAVE to have a solid understanding of how what you are doing will work, but for me it’s a little more of a binary thing, like it has to make sense rather than “oh wow this incredible theory of change convinces me this org is amazing”
“I care very little about ‘theories of change’. You can put together a narrative showing how anything can achieve anything so they just don’t update me much. To me, a concise story with a concrete datum or two is worth a thousand nodes on a flow chart. (I haven’t spoken to anyone else who seems to feel this way, and the community seems to be moving in a theory-of-changeward direction, so I’m curious if anyone reading this feels the same?”
I completely agree with this—in the GHD, social Enterprise work a lot of weight seems to be put on theoru of change and I don’t buy it. It just favors the best storytellers. Of course you HAVE to have a solid understanding of how what you are doing will work, but for me it’s a little more of a binary thing, like it has to make sense rather than “oh wow this incredible theory of change convinces me this org is amazing”