PowerU 53: Building Coalitions With People Who Don't Agree With You

#PowerU 53! A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks and Mark Carney’s Davos speech on power feels like a year ago already but one message is too important to let slide: how do you build effective coalitions when you’re up against someone with more positional power than you? Here’s the thing it’s easy get wrong: you’re not looking for people who already agree with you. You’re looking for people who don’t but have a reason to agree with you on this thing. Loretta Ross, who wrote the Calling In manifesto, puts it this way: a movement isn’t a group of people who agree on things. It’s a group of people who don’t, but find a way to work together anyway. It’s not easy - especially with the deep divisions in our democracies right now - and it’s not working with any one at any time. But it is understanding we don’t need to agree on everything to make transformative change happen on the things we do agree about. Have a listen for a great contemporary example. And I’m interested to hear: are there times you found a way to work with someone you never thought you’d be working with? What lessons - good and bad - came out of it? #PowerLiteracy #CoalitionBuilding #PowerU