Yet it was Jesus who put all the pieces together in a way that modern organizational science has not been able to reproduce. The difficulty centers on the hostility between human diversity and human unity. To illustrate the problem, we have chosen a fascinating animation that pictures four people who are as different as the colors of their faces, but watch carefully as they cooperate to speak a single sentence. This is not an easy task, but it's only when diversity can speak the language of unity with one voice that you have the beginning of a high-synergy learning organization. Diversity and unity are hostile by nature.
Diversity wants freedom and unity wants control.
But the plea our representatives make is not for a unity gained by chaining diversity, but for a free diversity that uses it's freedom to create genuine unity in the midst of genuine diversity. Polester George Barna predicts America is on a trajectory headed for moral anarchy, and at this point, it s not clear in what troubled waters our polarized country might land. Voluntary unity is the only win-win answer, but it's an answer hard to come by. Still, the answer is not an easy one. Downtown Atlanta was alive with excitement.