Source: The Book on the ShelfThe visible leader making the decision is often doing something considerably less consequential than the network of relational and epistemic infrastructure that made that decision available, that shaped what options appeared thinkable, what coalitions existed, and what information arrived in a usable form.
In communities as in organisations, the wayshaper is doing more of the causal work than the decision-maker, and is almost invariably less recognised for it
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