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A power analysis should stimulate ideas for strategies for engaging with the main institutions that drive or block change. It should dissolve the monoliths of ‘the state’ or ‘big business’ or ‘the international system’ into turbulent networks full of potential allies as well as opponents. A power analysis should also help us understand how those allies and opponents perceive the change, and why change doesn’t happen—the forces of inertia and paradigm maintenance.
How Change Happens
Duncan Green
Sometimes it is the cursedly clear and unwelcome set of answers provided by straight thinking that makes us mental slackers.
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini PhD
Once assumed to be necessary in all organizations, and to be a status which is desired, the number of people engaged in management increases, as does the number of people called managers, as the term becomes attached to a wider and wider range of jobs. A new class of people has been created, perhaps not in the classical Marxist sense, though that might not be too wide of the mark, but certainly a class in the sense of a concept which pulls together a diverse set of practices and people under one umbrella and claims that they are all doing the same sort of things.
Shut Down the Business School
Martin Parker
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