Preface
This is an unconventional book for an unconventional reader. It is intended for those professionals who, in addition to their specialized knowledge, would like to get a handle on life so they may put their special text into its proper context. It speaks to those thinkers and practitioners who have come to realize that learning to be is as much a necessary part of a successful professional life as is learning to do; and that to remain unidimensional is to become boringly predictable.
This book is about a new mode of seeing, doing, and being in the world; it is a way of thinking through chaos and complexity. It is not another “how-to” book, nor an alternative to what is already available. It is not a variation on the tired theme of offering ...