In the masterful 1953 trilogy More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon writes about a bunch of mostly very young misfits, all handicapped one way or another, who band together to become something new, mystical and unbelievably powerful. Society’s rejects, incapable of functioning on their own, these disabled misfits ‘blesh’ (a word invented by Sturgeon combining blend and mesh) into a Gestalt: a single, integrated whole. One of them explains: ‘The I is all of us.’
As the publisher’s blurb puts it: ‘Separately, they are talented freaks. Together they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution, and the final chapter in the history of the human race.’
Don’t you wish your project teams could do that? Wouldn’t it be great if you could find a way to get all your ‘talented freaks’ to ‘blesh’?
Free your inner misfit at: http://journyx.com/rss/redir/cio-human.html