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Uit een interview met de auteur Adam Kahane:

Kahane has spent most of his consultancy since Mont Fleur focusing on dialogue, what he calls “opening,” or even “love.” But he has come to see that power is just as important. He’s been inspired in this view by something Martin Luther King, Jr. said in a speech he delivered just six months before his assassination: “…power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.”

Doing that is not straightforward, though; it involves feeling and listening as much as thinking and talking. Kahane feels that something the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said captures this spirit perfectly: “We need to cross the stream by feeling for stones.” 

De Tilburgse hoogleraar Gabriel van den Brink vraagt zich in deze presentatie "Initiatief en Empathie" af, of Zorgen en Handhaven elkaar uitsluitende werelden zijn.


Elkaar uitsluitende werelden?

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