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Business books often seem to feature fours. Even Ken Wilber. Four kinds of people needed, quadrants for this and for that. It is as if we are unable to think beyond two binary dimensions and their interplay. Or we think our readers cannot. We perhaps need to raise questions and ways of thinking that are beyond the two factors, ways which take not just 3 or 10 or 10,003 factors into account, but realize that they might interact not just mathematically but exponentially and beyond; requiring many minds to be able to wrap around them enough to ask wise questions.

:- Doug.

It is not that front line people have nothing of value to add to the conversation: after all, they are human beings too. It is that what they have to add adds a level of complexity with which the “decision makers” are not prepared to deal. See this key: prepared.

:- Doug.

My work is how life lives together.

:- Doug.

There is a huge world
out there we say
of which we are a part

Another like it but larger
—our imaginations—

Three small portals
Allow us passage between
ear—mouth—ear

:- Doug.

We are all part of something
Larger than us
And continually run to small
At least we can turn our eyes
Or maybe stand out on the porch
In the storm

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 696

G-d rested on the seventh day
—and not forevermore—
creating—loving—in our day—
manure producing fragrant flowers—
creative transformation—death
of death—unfolding love—
which day—or more—is this—the eighth?

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