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‘Empowerment v Power’: Yassmin Abdel-Magied on How Real Change Is Made
Writer and activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied ponders the dynamics of power vs empowerment and how change is truly made in this essay taken from her latest work, Talking About a Revolution. My father was always a believer. ‘Empower the people,’ he would say, between mouthfuls of rice and mula7*, the red mincemeat stew we had for…
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The Power Of Mental Models: How Flight 32 Avoided Disaster
On a sunny morning in 2010, Qantas Airways flight 32 taxied onto a runway in Singapore, requested permission to begin the eight-hour flight to Sydney, and lifted into the bright sky.