(By Thomas Bateman, Bank of America Eminent Scholar at the McIntire School of Commerce) Consider the challenges of your job, your career, and climate change. What do they have in common, psychologically? In each case, success requires high-functioning human agency. In the psychological sense, agency entails a category of beliefs, a mindset. More profoundly, genuine agency includes the strategies and actions that accomplish what we want and bring us what we need.