The authors write, "Networks offer a structure for linking people and groups of people with a shared vision and shared values to build and strengthen the relationships necessary to shift big systems." Lots of things do that. I want to emphasize that what's special about networks is that they enable the linking of people with different vision and diverse values to work together in exchanges of mutual value - things like markets and conversations and research, for example. The whole "shared vision and shared values" represents to me an undesired politicization of networks in particular and society in general, replacing a system of dialogue and exchange with a system of power and influence. Think about it.
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