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QUANTUM ORGANIZATION

Organizational Structure and Design

Gretna Green is a small village in Scotland, just north of the border with England. In 1754, the Marriage Act prevented couples under the age of 21 marrying in England—causing star-crossed lovers to elope north of the border. Once a Scottish Las Vegas without Elvis, Gretna Green remains forever associated with hope, love, and romance.

This little village also bears witness to one of nature’s marvels—the murmuration of birds. On winter evenings you can scan the sky for flocks of starlings pulsing and twisting in synchrony, hundreds of thousands acting in unison as if a single organism. Folklore said it was a psychic link. Science, however, believes it’s about information flow, the “information ...

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