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But the list on O’Sullivan’s other wall revealed an entirely different philosophy about power and what should happen to it when you’re confronted with complex, nonroutine problems—such as what to do when a difficult, potentially dangerous, and unanticipated anomaly suddenly appears on the fourteenth floor of a thirty-two-story skyscraper under cons

In 2007 researchers Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler published a study that revealed that our attitudes and behaviors have more impact on the people around us than we’d ever previously thought.

Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

More central to the heart of governmental responsibility in democracies, however, is the digitization of public services.

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you try to use your strong ties to propagate a new idea, each person who spreads the word will probably wind up telling it to someone who has already heard it,

The seven strategies of change require a change in thinking. They require shifting your attention from the goal of spreading information to the goal of propagating norms.

“open parliament” movement, experimenting with a range of ways to make parliamentary procedures transparent to the public and experimenting with innovative voting methods.