For nearly 30 years, our political dialogue has been caught in an ideological trap. Narrow economic thinking has led us to conclude that our economy consists of two major, opposing components: the private sector and the public sector. We can think more clearly about our opportunities if we characterize our economy differently. This graphic explains how our market economy in our civic economy intersect. Along this porous boundary, we find a new opportunities for prosperity. S

1. Seeing our economy in new ways…
The interdependence of our market economy and our civic economy opens
the doors to new opportunities.
Shared Value
Perspective
Collective
Impact
Perspective
Our
Civic Economy
Our
Market Economy
Various terms have emerged to describe
connections that could improve the performance
of both our Civic and Market Economies.
Zone Leverage
of
Prime Link and Value
Our Civic Economy includes activities and investments that are publicly
valuable but not privately pro!table.
Examples include our court system, infrastructure, education, libraries,
health systems, public safety and environmental protection.
Our Market Economy includes activities and investments that are
publicly valuable and privately pro!table.
Our market economy functions well, because we have a strong civic
economy to support it.
The Industrial Commons Perspective,
has emerged to describe collaborations to
improve manufacturing competitiveness.
The Collective Impact Perspective views
collaborative opportunities as seen from
actors in our Civic Economy.
Link and Leverage Value represents
collaborative opportunities to link,
leverage and align assets across our
Market and Civic Economies.
Strategic Doing accelerates the
formation of these collaborations.
The Problem: Our policy debates are stuck in a highly
ideological framework, pitting the private sector against
the government.
The Opportunity: By transcending these rigid categories,
we can view our economy di"erently. Our economy consists
of both a Market Economy and a Civic Economy. In a
strong democracy, they work together to produce
prosperity.
Industrial
Commons
Perspective
The Shared Value Perspective represents
collaborative opportunities as seen from
actors in our Market Economy.
Strategic Doing provides a reliable approach for designing and
guiding complex collaborations to link, leverage and align assets
across our Civic and Market Economies.
It consists of simple rules to form collaborations quickly, move
them toward measurable outcomes, and make adjustments along
the way.
Communities and regions can easily establish civic spaces for
strategic collaborations to form and grow. These spaces are
governed by simple rules of civility which enable complex thinking
to take place.
Strategic Doing leads to replicable, scalable, and sustainable
collaborations.
Learn more about Strategic Doing at strategic doing.net