Life Itself Strategy Materials

A wiki/knowledgebase for all Life Itself's strategy related materials.

Rough organization

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Overview of existing materials

Inventory of existing materials

Life Itself '3 year (?)' Plan Ideas Summer 2024

An initial sketch with quite a bit of detail on individual streams/programs.

High level overview of ToC

map of how high level outcome connects with day to day activities

Strategy Micro to Macro diagram

Diagram showing up top level vision leads back to day to day activities (macro to micro)

Cultivating an Emerging Paradigm

Polished essay covering the full SCQA in extended form.

Critical Point 2021 deck

Slide deck outlining reason for existence and logic of approach

SCQH 2019

2019 SCQH: reason for Life Itself's existence

Tao Plans Page 2021

Brand narrative outlining our ambition at a high level and giving flavour of Life Itself

Big strategy mid-2022

Macro level (culture of socially engaged awakening) + How (Kibbuddhism) + Meso level & flywheel (become a facilitator of Intentional Teal Neighbourhoods and Purposful Teal Businesses)

Big vision ToC

Brand narrative 2020

Life Itself brand narrative 2020

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A history of projects to work on strategy

Jun 2024-🔁 (ongoing) - Strategy review and planning 🚧
- This has somehow metamorphised a bit. Started out as a sync of Rufus & Sylvie and has grown into another strategy evolution.
- Task: ❌ (TODO)
- Shaping: missing …
Jan 2024-⏸️ - Presenting our strategy (as is) 🚧⏸️ status: produced this KB and put most materials and never got to evaluation and publication
- Summary (from task derived from shaping)
  - Appetite: 3d (reduced by 1d given we spent 1.5d in shaping and work we did in shaping will help)
  - Problem: lot of strategy-related materials but they aren't woven together or consolidated which creates a sense of overwhelm and confusion and prevents them being published and used.
  - Solution: inventory materials, create framework to organize them, create roadmap for publication. If we can, start on consolidated strategy.
- Task: https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/1048
- Pitch: https://github.com/life-itself/comms/blob/main/pitch/2401%20Presenting%20our%20Strategy%20v3%20in%20its%20current%20form.md
Sep 2021 - Updated and consolidated Core SCQH / logic of existence / theory of change including summary "why Life Itself" - Sep 2021
- Task: https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/36
- Currently we have a large amount of material spread in many areas. We would like a consolidated structure for our SCQHs and at least one root SCQH plus a consolidated summary version so that:
  - We have a clear, simple and short summary for e.g. our front page, for communication
  - We have a organizing structure for our work i.e. any given activity should now be mappable against that hypothesis tree / theory of change
Nov 2022 (opened) [uber][epic] LI v3 Strategy & Implementation
- This was the overall task item for doing the v3 strategy
- Task: https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/196
  - A10: pretty minimal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lxWWI4IvnWPLPtQjLY2_fGkko99MnqIDKMCD6E-uDaQ/edit#heading=h.3vdu4snhplyo (could merge to issue)