This talk was for a social group exploring how to make a more systematic method to make strategy to drive social change - with inspiration from the business and military world, in addition to the social impact world.

1. Grand Strategy for
Social Change

2. Weak ass Left
Doing weak ass shit
Getting fuck all results

3. The Left is losing because:
It has no strategy and
continues to handicap its
ability to fight.

5. “At least we’ve done something” is
the rallying cry of losers
- The Accelerationist Manifesto
on “Folk Activism”

7. Why care about this at all?
● The Enlightenment is dying because the Right is winning.
● The Left needs a cohesive strategy and collective will to counterattack.
● We need to stop complaining and start fighting.

8. WTF is Grand Strategy?

9. “Grand strategy is the effective use of all
instruments of power to accomplish
long-term objectives”

10. Many Strategies for Social Change
● Politics: Electoral Politics, Lobbying, etc.
● Economics: Impact Finance, Social Business, Unions
● Legal: Lawsuits, Regulatory Law, Patents, etc.
● Movement Building: Protest, Community, Direct Action, etc.
● Media: PR, Think Tanks, Run Media Agency, Digital Marketing, etc.
● Clandestine Force: Intelligence Action, SpecOps, PsyOps, etc.
● Military Force: Open Warfare, Guerrilla Movements, Blockades, Drone Strikes

11. GOP Grand Strategy
Election
Strategy
Lobbying
Strategy
Press
Strategy
Mass Rallies
Voter Suppression
Gerrymandering
Corporate Welfare
Coalition Building
Think Tanks
MisInformation
Distraction Theater
Dog Whistle Racism

12. So how do we form a
grand strategy?

15. Tools for
Strategic Thinking

16. Porter’s
Five Forces
Model

18. Value Chain
&
Wardley
Mapping

19. Position
Mapping

21. Business
Model
Canvas

23. Where are these tools for
social change?!?

26. Stakeholder Mapping

28. Effective
Altruism:
“The
Extraordinary
Flowchart”

31. $ ROI from Copenhagen Consensus