Stakeholders within the Power Pyramid

Abstract

From the previous chapter, it is obvious that there are only a limited number of key stakeholders in any project. The vast majority of people remain unconcerned. However, before one can get involved in a project or a community, one must know something about the people with whom one expects to deal. In any community, using the broadest definition of that word, the stranger is quickly spotted. Communities are now not just geographical entities, isolated from main centers. National parliaments form their own communities, so there is a community in Westminster, in Washington and in Brussels. It is where key players meet on familiar ground, where everyone knows everyone else. The example used in this chapter is of a geographical community but the principle applies to communities of all sorts.