But what’s The Problem? What’s The Question that engages people’s minds? And Who AM I – in relationship to this Problem or Question? Once we feel that there is a question to address and are sufficiently irritated by what we see and feel, then we start looking around for tools and technology to solve that question.

Some of those tools are abstract symbols, like money, and some are structures of organizations, like the circle of people, or on a larger scale, an organization.

A fundamental problem is that we all see the world from our individual perspective, but institutions and nations span a much larger group. Even on a university campus often one individual is working against the efforts of another individual, even without realizing it.

This means that feedback and communication are key elements to the whole system working smoothly. But what if leaders, decision makers, and their circle of advisors don’t want to hear that feedback? Well, I think the power to be heard comes back to the circle of people, who is in that circle, and how they can effect their environment as a group and maybe enlarge that group.

Internet technology is doing interesting things and inch by inch helping us to find solutions, but in many cases I see this as coming back to a face-to-face dialogue. Not a get-to-know-you dialogue, but a dialogue with a purpose or some Problem to solve and gives purpose to the group.