1. UNLEASH AND ENCOURAGE OUR CREATIVE TALENTS

• Encourage creative thinking to augment and expand rational thinking.
  
• Recognize that every individual is both being and becoming simultaneously, continually growing and changing.
  
• Incorporate flexible procedures, rules, and standards, as well as versatile personal roles.
  
• Base contributions on the unique way each person can make the organization and the world a better place.

2. CONNECT ALL PARTS OF THE SYSTEM TO EACH OTHER

• Integrate the new and the different, embracing the enrichment of diversity.
  
• Offer individual responsibility and self-fulfillment to all people.
  
• Base the social systems on the premise that we are interconnected and interdependent.
  
• Replace conflict and competition with trust and cooperation.
  
• Unify previously separated activities, roles, and functions.

3. SHIFT THE ANCHOR OF THE PAST TO THE PULL OF THE FUTURE

• Create a shared and compelling vision of an ideal future.
  
• Make day-to-day decisions based on that vision, not on the past.
  
• Assure that all people have the opportunity to contribute to the vision.

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Through my office window, Minneapolis, MN.

Page 06 in the Kaleidoscope lens on Resilience.

Adapted from Breakpoint and Beyond by George Land and Beth Jarman, 1992.