It's a matter of economics, too. So, to stave off some of these consequences, the house has embarked on a kind of manic expansion. On the taxi ride in from the airport I share with Lanigan and her oilman husband, I decide to test her irony meter, despite knowing her for all of 10 minutes. HCI's expansion lends this year's proceedings an urgency that repeat visitors say was lacking at previous summits. There are four Saturday sessions instead of three.
Moderators seem intent on extracting as many lessons as possible.
As the session winds down, they ask one person to summarize. The question, of course, is how exactly they use the information gathered. My query is answered several weeks later when I receive a booklet in the mail with the wisdom accrued from Saturday's sessions. This dissolution paved the way for the millennial fluidity that is beginning now. Basically, it would acknowledge the movement that is bringing spirituality into the workplace.