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Apr 17Liked by Richard Merrick

We seem to blindly be doing to our skills based what we have done to our crop base. Good line. Do we still have Diversity of jobs however we have lost diversity of attitude? We have lost the mavericks who take risks?

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I shared Andy’s aphorism with one of my sons. His response was “POSIWID!” I said, “what’s that?”

“Purpose of a system is what it does.”

Having hay in the barn is the purpose of the farm. The purpose of a management system is to <…>. The purpose of a government is to<…>.

As we talked about this Richard, we decided that conversation is THE hay in the barn that we need right now. It feeds our curiosity, nourishes our minds, energizes is for work, unites us in purpose, and helps us to see what we must do.

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