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social change always begins with people who have “both a critical eye and a hopeful heart.”
Sam Pressler • Building societal structures to hold the messiness of our relationships
From a movement-building perspective, that trajectory made sense: movements that want to grow have to reach across silos and beyond the already converted.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Having mostly handed off all responsibility for assessing issues and setting policy to elected politicians, voters are free to indulge themselves in narrow and virulently asserted positions rather than having to come together, work to perceive the common good, and plot a course toward
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
The key assumption behind thinking politically is that people in an organization are seeking to meet the expectations of their various constituencies. When you understand the nature of those expectations, you can mobilize people more effectively.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
As we have seen increasingly in the past several decades, the foundation of the institutional problem was the vast expansion of the authority of the federal government, and apparent power, and its inability to create coherent and understandable laws and policies.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
