Emergent Strategy
by adrienne maree brown
Organize like a mycelium network
For you if
you want to build movements without burning yourself out
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Drawing on Octavia Butler and complexity theory, brown offers a different model for organizing, leading, and living — one rooted in adaptation, small patterns, and trust rather than hierarchy and burnout. A book that takes seriously both the personal and the political without collapsing them into each other. Used in classrooms, co-ops, and organizing spaces everywhere because it actually works.
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