F rom the outset Concord in Devon was an attempt to see whether Concord could extend its work out of the big cities into rural England where the reality of our multicultural community was generally unrealized. Conceived, embarked upon without any guarantee of funding, programmed and performed . . . Crazy . . . NOW principally struck by is the efficiency of the device invented for us out of bare necessity. Having nothing, preconceptions least of all, makes for efficiency.
Friendship is efficient.
Being small, even of necessity, is efficient. There wasn't much time to stop, but I remember wondering in passing why our small-scale method of working seemed at times magically effective. What is unshackled can be a free agent. By its nature it is a catalyst. It is able to make connections between and even within organizations, even their departments.