![]() This is closely related to the concept of ‘voice’ (Hirschman 1970). Although this may sound like a somewhat obscure academic concept, we all have experiences that reinforce the idea that words have power. Discursive approaches focus on the use of language as a source of power. Research tells us that power is exercised more subtly at the micro-level through discourse and meaning-making. All of its growth is in the direction of the prevailing wind. These all enable an organisation to wield power over others.Ī photograph of a tree where the growth has been influenced by strong wind. In other words, in the context of inter-organisational collaboration, the macro-level power of an organisation is associated with its control of resources that others need its importance to the strategic purposes of other organisations and its position in the structures of collaboration. This contrasts with macro-level power, which is based on resources, importance and structural position (Huxham and Beech, 2008). Micro-level power is seen in day-to-day activities, in ‘points of power’ which are played out in relationships between people as they collaborate. Huxham and Beech (2008) refer to power at this relational level as ‘micro-level power’. Participants suggested that, even where they are well aware of the greater resources, influence, importance or position of the organisations with which they collaborate, they still believe they are able to make a difference, and they focus this belief on the relational aspects of collaboration. In Carol’s research, she noted a contrast between this public performance of collaboration and informal backstage discussions. It is perhaps for this reason that we have observed that many collaborative partnership meetings seem to avoid surfacing these asymmetries, and instead proceed as if power is shared equally, or as if ‘partnership’ in some way negates power. You have the basics of exponents when we're dealing with 10, and I know what you were thinking.5 Influence, meaning-making and micro-level powerįor many of us, working with power asymmetry is not comfortable. So 10 times 10 times 10 times 10 times 10. We're going to take five 10s and multiply them together. Up to you on the street and say what is 10 to the fifth power? What is that? What number that you're probably familiar with would this be? Well this would mean that Well as you might have imagined, we were taking 10 10s and Write it using exponents? Pause the video and figure that out. Number here, 10 billion? What's a way that we could If you ever saw 10 to the third power, that means hey, let me We would read this asġ0 to the third power. Might have imagined, we're taking a certain number of 10s and we see we're taking three 10s and we're multiplying them together. Times 10 times 10 or 1000? How would you write that using exponents? Pause this video and see So 10 to the second power is 10 times 10 is equal to 100. Some of the parts of this, the two would be called the exponent and the 10 would be the base. That looks fancy, but all that means is let's take two 10s and multiply them together and we're going to get 100. Multiplying them together, I could write this as 10 to the second power. And so 10 times 10, we can rewrite as being equal to, if I have two 10s and I'm So the way they do this is through something known as exponents. To write things like this a little bit more elegantly. So mathematicians haveĬome up with a notation and some ideas to be able Kinda hard to write, and imagine if we have 30 10s that we were multiplying together. This right over here is 10 billion, and it's already getting We put the commas there so it's just a little bit easier to read. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. It's going to be oneįollowed by 10 zeroes. This is going to be equal to, even the number that it's equal to is going to be quite hard to write. Let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. That's four, that's five, that's six, that's seven, that's eight, that's nine, that is 10 10s. ![]() So if I were to go 10 times 10 times 10 times 10, But at some point, if I'mĭoing this with enough 10s, it gets pretty hard to write. Multiply them together, so 10 times 10, which In this video, I'm going to introduce you to a new type of mathematical notation that will seem fancy at first, but hopefully you'llĪppreciate is pretty useful and also pretty straightforward.
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