C H A P T E R 4
Dancing Through Complexity
Shaping Resolutions by Resisting Simplification
Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
—Albert Einstein
WHEN MARTHA GRAHAM DIED in 1991 at the age of ninety-six, she was a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, the acknowledged queen of modern dance, and one of Time magazine’s “100 Greatest Americans of the Twentieth Century.”1 She was also one of the century’s most gifted integrative thinkers, whose thought had far-reaching results—so far-reaching it might even be of interest to executives responsible for fashioning creative solutions to perplexing business dilemmas.
Martha Graham joined The Denishawn School dance company of Los Angeles in 1916, following her graduation ...
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