Going with the flow
“Been flat out like a lizard drinking” as my dad would say.
So here’s a quick and easy, but profound post. . . . More to follow on the emerging church in the next few days.
Margaret Wheatley believes streams can teach us about organizations (movements) and the need for adaptive methods.
I am attracted to the diversity I see, to these swirling combinations of mud, silt, grass, water, rocks. This stream has an impressive ability to adapt, to shift the configurations, to let the power balance move, to create new structures. But driving this adaptability, making it all happen, I think, is the water’s need to flow. Water answers to gravity, to downhill, to the call of the ocean. The forms change, but the mission remains clear. Structures emerge, but only as temporary solutions that facilitate rather than interfere. There is none of the rigid reliance on single forms, on true answers, on past practices that I have learned in business. Steams have more than one response to rocks; otherwise, there’d be no Grand Canyon. Or else Grand Canyons everywhere.“Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World Revised” (Margaret J. Wheatley), 15.
