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That said, as a defensive strategy, incumbents should surround themselves with people who can exercise on the plan but do ''not'' have the gumption or charisma to re-frame the narrative, and who do not therefore present a plausible alternative. At least require someone to have the imagination to reframe things entirely. | That said, as a defensive strategy, incumbents should surround themselves with people who can exercise on the plan but do ''not'' have the gumption or charisma to re-frame the narrative, and who do not therefore present a plausible alternative. At least require someone to have the imagination to reframe things entirely. | ||
{{author|James P Carse}}’s | The premises of {{author|James P. Carse}}’s {{Br|Finite and Infinite Games}} throw light here: replacing an incumbent with a like-for-like replacement is a combative strategy from a ''finite game'': the rules remain the same, the boundaries are fixed; there will be a winner and a loser. Reframing the narrative is a “poetic” act of imagination that changes the rules, identifies new objectives and allows the co-operative endeavour (a polity) to continue: this is an infinite game strategy. | ||
Politicians who have successfully re-framed the narrative (for better or worse): Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s New Labour; [[David Lange]]’s Fourth Labour government in New Zealand; Donald Trump’s presidency of the United States. Note that each of these movements eventually foundered when it lost its aspiration to challenge and imagine a better future, and descended into a [[finite game]]-style battle within the movement to exert influence and usurp power. | Politicians who have successfully re-framed the narrative (for better or worse): Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s New Labour; [[David Lange]]’s Fourth Labour government in New Zealand; Donald Trump’s presidency of the United States. Note that each of these movements eventually foundered when it lost its aspiration to challenge and imagine a better future, and descended into a [[finite game]]-style battle within the movement to exert influence and usurp power. | ||