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. Never had so many Georgians crowded onto Peachtree Street. Never had so many strangers hugged, and cheered, and felt so close. Never were so many hearts filed with a joy they would never forget.