The Long Win in Society

This page contains references, stories and some downloadable worksheets to help deepen your Long Win Thinking. They accompany the Stories of Long Winners in the new Chapter of the second edition of The Long Win.
Stories:

Jane Davidson is one of the 10 stories of Long Winners in the extra chapter of The Long Win second edition and an inspirational leader and former Minister in the Welsh Government. She was the main architect of the Future Generations (Wales) Act and you can read more about her in The Long Win and here: Jane Davidson on the Creation of The Well-Being of Future Generations Act in Wales — Jane Davidson


Metrics is a topic that comes up time and time again. There’s no question our obsession with short-term, easily measurable KPIs has held us back across schools, healthcare, business and government. Rethinking what we measure and how we measure is a critical part of putting The Long Win into practice. Jerry Muller’s book The Tyranny of Metrics is a great place to start to expand your perspective on the damage done by narrow metrics across society: The Tyranny of Metrics | Princeton University Press
References & Long Win Thinking materials:
You can find out more about Jon Alexander’s brilliant book ‘Citizens’ here: CITIZENS | Jon Alexander
Donella Meadows was a brilliant thinker in the field of understanding the system change required to move away from ‘short win’ approaches towards greater long win thinking approaches in society. You can find out more about her, her books and articles here: The Donella Meadows Project and in particular about how to think about system change here in this essay Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System – The Donella Meadows Project and more broadly Systems Thinking Resources – The Donella Meadows Project
The Institute of Government’s report ‘Purpose in Power’ shows the need for significant change to the structures and working practices of government in order to enable government to better address the long-term cross-cutting issues that we face. More details here: Power with purpose: Final report of the Commission on the Centre of Government | Institute for Government
For long-term thinking, I’d recommend The Good Ancestor by Roman Krznaric, you can find out more about it here: The Good Ancestor – Roman Krznaric
The Long Time Project has lots of practical tools and resources to help us improve our long-term thinking
Downloads: Long Win Worksheets
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