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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Leaders of systems change need to be intentional about making the risks and responsibilities associated with change collective and mutual, rather than individual. They drive change through networks and relationships, and use the power and influence that emerges. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Structural racism “identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’ and disadvantages associated with ‘color’ to endure and adapt over time.” The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here. 1 The structure of labor is one such “dimension of our history.”