Foreword by Alan M. Webber

You can always count on the KaosPilots to take you exactly where you need to go—in this case on a journey to the future. Every where I travel these days I encounter people of all ages and all walks of life who share an idea: We need to make the world a better place, we need to find new approaches to solving old and troubling problems, we need to bring the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship to societal change.

All over the world people are packing their bags to make the trip to the future, a future where we work together, innovate together, celebrate together, and come together to find solutions that work. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship have been around as ideas for at least 30 years. But in the last decade these ideas have taken off. Young people would rather change the world and make a contribution to the future than just make a lot of money; older people want to leave a better world for their children. Because of this new consciousness we are witnessing an explosion of new ideas and new approaches to solving social problems around the world. Like Muhammad Yunus’ notion of a hybrid model—social businesses—there are new shapes to how change will happen and new experiments that give us new hope and teach us new lessons.

This very creative book put together by a KaosPilots class is an important part of our shared journey. They are teaching us what they themselves have learned, sharing the lessons they have benefited from. From them we see the varieties of shapes and forms that social innovation takes; we learn the new tools, techniques, and tactics that we can all employ in our own journey; we learn how to speak the language of the future, what to look for, and how to travel faster, smarter, safer, and more effectively.

Read this book and then pack your own bag for the journey of all our lives—the journey to create the future we all want to live in!

See you up the road—

Alan M. Webber

Founding editor, Fast Company magazine