Pathway 3 | Analysis: Power
ABOUT THIS PATHWAY
We often try to solve a problem without understanding it fully. This is like performing surgery on someone’s leg without understanding how their heart works. We don’t need our knee surgeon to talk to us about our heart, but we sure do hope she knows the fundamentals before performing surgery. Understanding the challenges we’re trying to tackle, and understanding better the world around us, is similarly integral to our change-making efforts.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power. Specialists in a given field often know a lot about their specific sector, but may lack the understanding they need of other sectors. This can cause their change projects to fail. This pathway begins to explore some of the fundamentals of understanding how our world works so that we are better prepared to reshape it.
GOAL
Understand how the world works so that we can transform it.
CONCEPTS
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