![]() ![]() It reminded me of the mantra of "temporary perfection" that I had been turning over and over in my mind throughout reading this book. The grounding nature of her writing (literally, calling on organizers and orchestrators to draw from patterns and solutions already found in nature) reminds us simply that "connection to each other is the most important thing to cultivate in the face of hopelessness - we don't want to cling to outdated paradigms we want to cling to each other and shift the paradigms."Humbly, brown acknowledges that in accordance with emergence, all the ideas in the book may evolve beyond recognition sooner or later, and that's exactly the point. ![]() ![]() Change is the common language of the world, and adrienne maree brown lays out a broadly applicable manual for transformation, in Emergent. Specifically, Octavia Butler's visionary worlds and vivid concepts can be applied to logic, strategy, organizational planning. The most moving, also most obvious, takeaway I had from Emergent Strategy, is that fiction can inform nonfiction. ![]()
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