One essential source of effectiveness is the usage of resources beyond our own capabilities. This is even more important for individuals than for organizations that, by their nature, have interactions built into their structure.
I hope to write later on specific targeted sources of resources and some of the tools available to find and access them. It is important to mention that many resources are of an interdependent nature. That means that your contribution to others may be more important than the direct benefits you get. Sometimes the benefits are more of a secondary nature: the satisfaction of having contributed, the improvements that you have contributed to your environment.
I plan to add to the resources listed here links to sites that enable such interaction, where you can contribute and request contributions for the benefit of the larger community. David Bohm's "Dialog" is a seminal contribution to the development of effective interaction. A site that practically experiments in social interaction is http://univcafe.concordia.ca/html/involve.html. It just happens to be centered in my Montreal neighborhood.
My teacher Mike Jay has generated another path opening resource. You can visit one of his recent relevant contributions at http://www.cprforthesoul.net/cmd.php?af=382387. His book the "CPR for the Soul" deals with the ways that people can learn about their own limitations, focus on their strengths. They can get the support they need from others who have the desires to act and the capabilities that an individual or a small organization may lack.
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