Nurturing reliable, creative, nimble organizations
Organizations are notoriously hierarchical or top-down given principally two age-old models; the family and the military. Both are instructive models in their own right. We’ve just learned the wrong lessons from them. [...]
The ongoing message is that we're running out of oil, and that it's dirty, and scary and bad for the environment. Never mind that our air is some 70% cleaner than it was say, 30 years ago. [...]
Let's say you live in Chicago. And I tell you that you can not buy anything from anyone who didn't go to your high school. What kind of life do you think you'd have, compared to the one you have now? What about if you could just buy things from Chicagoans, or better yet, people who live in Illinois? What kind of life would you have now? But wouldn't you prefer to be able to buy things from all over the world? [...]