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Enlivening Edge Magazine Editorial December 2023 – Field of Dreams We Have Built It. Will You Come?
By Lia Aurami for Enlivening Edge Magazine
“If you build it, they will come.” A popular 1989 US movie gave rise to this optimistic saying. In “Field of Dreams” Kevin Costner played a farmer who listened to a whispered inspiration to build a baseball field on some of his cropland. He did this, at risk of being thought crazy, and of financial ruin. The end of the movie shows a line of hundreds of cars wending their way toward the ballfield.
Similarly, Enlivening Edge has heard inspiring whispers in our more than eight years of overview of and service to movements toward the next-stage of organizations. Organizational innovators often told us “We want a community of peers.” “I want more community.”[…]