Re: LO28110
>My question is: Does anyone know of a large, successful, profitable
>organization that is a theoretically perfect LO? I think I know the
>answer. (Ed Heinrich)
Dear LO group, I'd like to put my thinking alongside Ed's. To kinda let it
hang there.
Large: The US of A.
How about small?: My family.
- Always becoming what we want/need to be.
- Always desiring to become.
- Always able to become (free, responsible, with opportunity).
- Holding rich memories, beautiful and ugly.
- Being eternally grateful for the blessing of today.
- Dreaming of tomorrow, in this world and the one to come.
- Balancing passion and responsibility.
- Enormously profitable (if the "bottom" line is allowed to contain
community, relationships, and meaning).
- Forgiving.
- Caring.
- Loving.
- Hoping.
- Bold.
- Sticking together under fire.
- Room for all.
- Not without rules, but structured for freedom.
- Graceful.
- Willing to pay the price of peace (which can be higher than the price of
conflict).
- As perfect as anything on and of this beautiful earth has, is, and
probably ever will be.
A LO is not a "thing" or a "state." It is a way, a process, a path.
When I get in a funky mood and feel that things are not so good, I stop
and reflect. If I could wave a magic wand and have anything I want, I
realize I really don't want or need anything. I have everything. I have
the opportunity to get what I need -- to be what I need. At the least,
what I have is more than I may deserve.
I'll never forget Mikhail Gorbachev looking me in the eye through my
television and challenging me. He said that present day Americans may
take for granted the precious gift placed in their laps by the founding
fathers (& mothers?). That is, we have the process and the freedom to
always become what we want and need to be.
There are "perfect" LO's all around us. Everywhere. All the new theories
or programs in the world will never address the timeless responsibility we
each have to respect one another, and to honor and learn from our
differences.
Brian Andreas (see storypeople.com):
"What do I get for this? I said & the angel
gave me a catalog filled with toasters & clock
radios & a basketball signed by Michael Jordan
& I said, But this is just stuff & the angel smiled
at me & swallowed me in her arms. I'm so glad
you said that, she whispered to me. I knew you
still had a chance."
This is where I am this morning. Where are you?
Take care,
John Dicus
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