I was talking last week about Open Space serving as a “trim tab,” pointing to its use in guiding transformational change in organizations. Along the way, I discovered that Bucky Fuller, according to Wikipedia, “is often cited for his use of trim tabs as a metaphor for leadership and personal empowerment.” <\/p>\n
Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary\u2014the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab.<\/p>\n
It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.<\/p>\n
So I said, call me Trim Tab.<\/p>\n
\u2014Buckminster Fuller<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was talking last week about Open Space serving as a “trim tab,” pointing to its use in guiding transformational change in organizations. Along the way, I discovered that Bucky Fuller, according to Wikipedia, “is often cited for his use of trim tabs as a metaphor for leadership and personal empowerment.” In the February 1972 … <\/p>\n
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