Leadership Practices and Organizational Scaling Flashcards

Vocabulary terms covering leadership and organizational strategies including accountability, scaling methods, collective impact conditions, and behavioral change models based on lecture notes.

Accountability (Strategy)

A strategy operating on the principle that transparency makes consequences visible, leveraging reputational risk ("shame or fame") to coordinate behavior without formal authority.

Material Information

To be effective for accountability, information must be relevant to decisions, comparable across choices, and actionable by the recipient.

Megastories

Narratives like free markets or sustainable development that allow people who have never met to collaborate based on a shared belief system.

Community of Practice

Networks where professionals learn from peers by sharing tacit, experiential knowledge that is typically missing from academic textbooks.

Train-the-trainer

A multiplier strategy that builds local capacity by training a few experts who then train influencers in their own communities, creating a ripple effect.

Scaling-up

The methodical replication of isolated successful innovations to achieve system-wide impact through policies using a top-bottom approach.

Quantitative Scaling

Also called "scaling out," this involves customizing and sustaining programs to reach a greater number of people in different geographic locations over time.

Functional Scaling

Broadening the scope of an initiative by adding a second function to the original purpose, effectively solving two problems at once.

Political Scaling

Expanding the reach of innovations through influence on the political process and changes in laws or policies.

Organizational Scaling

The growth and expansion of the specific organization that is implementing a particular innovation.

Diffusion Model Segments

A strategy that segments populations into: Innovators (risk-takers), Early Adopters (opinion leaders), Majority (risk-averse), and Laggards (traditionalists).

Collective Impact

A structured framework for coordinating many dispersed actors through a common agenda, shared measurement systems, and backbone support staff.

Mutually Reinforcing Activities

One of the $5$ conditions for success in Collective Impact where actors coordinate differentiated tasks so their unique expertise supports one another, ensuring alignment from DAC.

Backbone Support

The dedicated staff and infrastructure required to support the initiative, providing a foundation for Collective Impact success.

Social Marketing

A practice focusing on removing physical and psychological barriers to behavior change rather than just providing information.

Information Deficit Model

A model based on the idea that just providing information leads to change, which Social Marketing rejects in favor of identifying barriers and reshaped incentives.

Gamify Theory

The concept that humans thrive on rewards and external motivation rather than just internal motivation or personal choice.