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Most of us grow up believing in merit. We’re raised to think that the truth will win out and the best idea will always win in the end. Unfortunately, that’s not really true. As much as we might like to believe that our ideas can stand on their own, the truth is that we need power and influence to put them into action.
Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, who teaches the...
In the 1990s, Western-style liberal democracy was triumphant. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Cold War had been won. Teams of diplomats and consultants rushed to spread the Washington Consensus, an agreed-upon set of reforms that poor countries were pressured to undertake by their richer brethren.
Francis Fukuyama noted at the time that we had reached an endpoint in...
In 2008, when the global financial crisis hit, the world was a relatively stable place. While the US was still engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, those were fairly low-level conflicts at that point. The US federal deficit was $450 billion and the US national debt was $10 trillion, both less than a third of what they are now.
Today, the world is a very different place. Be...
All too often we think about change in terms of persuasion. We think if we can just come up with the right message, broadcast it widely and get it to the right people, that change will happen. But decades of evidence shows that’s not true. Even if we are able to inform people and change their attitudes, they are unlikely to change their behavior.
What Gene Sharp showed...