Cascades, Greg Satell
Cascades, Greg Satell
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Cascades
How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change

Author: Greg Satell

Narrator: Greg Satell

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/03/2019


Synopsis

What does it take to change the world? This book will show you how to harness the power of CASCADES to create a revolutionary movement!

If you could make a change-any change you wanted-what would it be? Would it be something in your organization or your industry? Maybe something it’s in your community or throughout society as a whole?

Creating true change is never easy. Most startups don’t survive. Most community groups never get beyond small local actions. Even when a spark catches fire and protesters swarm the streets, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast as it started. The status quo is, almost by definition, well entrenched and never gives up without a fight.

In this groundbreaking book, one of today's top innovation experts delivers a guide for driving transformational change. To truly change the world or even just your little corner of it, you don’t need a charismatic leader or a catchy slogan. What you need is a cascade: small groups that are loosely connected but united by a common purpose.

As individual entities, these groups may seem inconsequential, but when they synchronize their collective behavior as networks, they become immensely powerful. Through the power of cascades, a company can be made anew, an industry disrupted, or even an entire society reshaped. As Satell takes us through past and present movements, he explains exactly why and how some succeed while others fail.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on November 19, 2020

This is an easy-to-read book that can serve as an introduction into the theory and practice of movements. What it lacks in substance is compensated with the already mentioned good flow of text with several good examples and an ample amount of notes and references to other, relevant sources (e.g. Gen......more

Goodreads review by Martin on July 15, 2020

Great introduction into campaign strategy. However, bit short, simplified and repetitive. Otherwise, it would receive 5 stars. So defintely a good starting point if you want to get into planning campaigns.......more

Goodreads review by Clare on December 11, 2021

I thought this was a good business book, which got me thinking about making change in organisations. For me the key message was building bridges across boundaries, understanding that getting things done is better than purity, and how to engage wide groups in transforming services (the NHS egs are ex......more

Goodreads review by Joel on August 08, 2020

Great concepts Some very deep and insightful concepts. Not delivered in the most effective way. Chapters are very long and jumpy. Overall great work but not very well written.......more

Goodreads review by Cameron on January 13, 2020

Great for the novice, not for others This book surprised me in many ways. The first was the focus on stories that anchored the discussion of something that can be very technical and dry - network theory. That is what will hook a lot of people for whom this is a new territory. For those who have exper......more