Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Build a Tribe to Help


Have a task?
Build a tribe to help you with it.

Figure out what you want the tribe to do.
Pick the right people to do it.
Tell them what you need.
Get out of the way and let them work.

When you can trust yourself, you can trust the tribe.

1 comment:

Dr. Mike said...

Hiroji Kubota: “Ancestor Worship in Hangzhou, China”

Whom more sacred to worship than those
closest to you, emerging from fog,
incense, and lit votary candles?
Those shuffling specters turn mute and stare.
Millions wear white for complicity
in denouncing their neighbors, parents,
teachers, doctors, anyone owning
too much, driving them between rows of
bamboo poles, coercing confessions
until their tongues, cut from their mouths, spell
what? Too many bones lie between the skulls
of wild dogs. Erosion wastes, children rave
mad in the streets, beating tin cans to
fright birds from their perch and snap their wings.

[Old Disposable Poem]
Dr. Mike