All the ingredients for progress – knowledge, capital, technology, and willpower – are already at our disposal; what’s missing is the connective infrastructure to bring a critical mass of actors together and build resilient networks for change.
Our Fieldbook
The Explorers Club Fieldbook is created for anyone bold enough to explore systemic investing. It’s written for our entire ecosystem: impact investors and institutions, wealth owners and peers, current and future Explorers, and the many allies who share our belief that change must be built together.
The spirit of this Fieldbook is learning by doing. Because systemic change is never the work of one author or one community — it is co-written by many. This is your Fieldbook too. More chapters will follow. Not just by us, but maybe also by you.
Chapter 1
An intro: who we are, what we do, projects, dots and more
Chapter 2
Systemic Infrastructure
Chapter 3
Systemic Mindset
Chapter 4
Embracing complexity with new tools
Chapter 5
There Is No Such Thing as a Portfolio
Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11 & beyond
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The Quest for Systems Change
« Back to our fieldbook Systems change refers to transformations that alter the underlying structures and dynamics of a complex system, be it an industry, a community, or a global challenge like climate change. Unlike incremental improvements or...
The Foundation for Systemic Transformation
« Back to our fieldbook Infrastructure is often thought of in terms of physical assets – roads, power grids, telecommunications, etc. Indeed, physical infrastructure is crucial; it provides the basic services and connectivity that societies and...
System change infrastructure
« Back to our fieldbook Systemic lenses require a shift in the mindset: a move away from focusing solely on specific projects, industries, or short- to mid-term returns, and toward stepping back to examine the underlying systems, the networks of...
Connective tissue
« Back to our fieldbook Here lies the critical challenge: systems change projects operate on longer timeframes and by nature cannot offer conventional measurement. They may challenge long-held paradigms or threaten vested interests. Traditional...
Critical mass, networks, and resilience
« Back to our fieldbook How infrastructure enables emergence Critical Mass Having established what systems change infrastructure looks like in practice, we now turn to how it functions: specifically, the dynamics of critical mass and network effects...