“We are at that very point in time when a four hundred year old age is rattling in its deathbed, and another is struggling to be born. A shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater and swifter than the world has ever experienced. Ahead lies the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never seen. It is the path to a livable future in the centuries ahead, as society evolves into ever-increasing diversity and complexity”
― One from Many : VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization (Paperback)--by Dee Hock [2005 Edition]
― One from Many : VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization (Paperback)--by Dee Hock [2005 Edition]
“Life is not about control. It’s not about getting. It’s not about having. It’s not about knowing. It’s not even about being. Life is eternal, perpetual becoming, or it is nothing. Becoming is not a thing to be known, commanded, or controlled. It is a magnificent, mysterious odyssey to be experienced.”
― One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
― One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
“The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.”
― One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
― One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
“Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.”
― One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
― One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
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