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Rules for Change Agents
  • Rule 1 : Stay alive
  • Rule 2 : Start where the system is
  • Rule 3 : Never work uphill
    • Corollary 1 : Don't build hills as you go
    • Corollary 2 : Work in the most promising arena
    • Corollary 3 : Don't use one when two could do it
    • Corollary 4 : Don't over-organise
    • Corollary 5 : Don't argue if you can't win
    • Corollary 6 : Play God a little
  • Rule 4 : Innovation requires a good idea, initiative and a few friends
  • Rule 5 : Load experiments for success
  • Rule 6 : Light many fires
  • Rule 7 : Keep an optimistic bias
  • Rule 8 : Capture the moment