CHAPTER 1
The Web of Change
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,tied in a single garment of destiny.Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Networks are all around us, yet they are often hidden in plain sight. At their most basic level, networks are webs of relationships. There are biological networks like the neural networks in our brains, technological networks like highway systems and electricity grids, and human networks like social and professional networks. Networks are, as Fritjof Capra has said, “the unified basic pattern of life.”1
The networks that underlie our organizational, social, and planetary systems have a huge influence on how healthy and ...
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