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Scenario

When your board claims impartiality but protects existing advantages

Our nonprofit board is using the veil of ignorance to redesign our grant allocation process, but the members who currently benefit from our existing criteria keep finding ways to protect their advantages while claiming they're being impartial. I can see what's happening but calling it out directly feels like it would blow up the whole collaboration.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

People invoke fairness principles while unconsciously preserving their own positions of benefit.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Rawlsian justice — the thought experiment?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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