Some days I feel like Kit Carson. Our little band has been out over the unknown entrepreneurial landscape for 35 years......we been across the prairies, into the mountains, through the deserts and seen the ocean. We have a good sense of the territory. In my mind, I can see Kit Carson, a grizzled old man, riding back to St. Louis to watch the first wagon train line up and start their trek west. In the next month they will discover cactus, rattlesnakes, the native tribes and the hot south wind. But they don't yet know about the high passes, the deep snows, blistering waterless deserts and the mighty western rivers. They are finding out about the new land now, but there is so much more ahead of them. The entrepreneurial programs of today have still to discover complex adaptive systems, the role of temperament, systems thinking, network theory, sales windows, leverage points, commoditization, and capitalism's conundrum--all of these are components of Economic Gardening. All we can do is testify that they are still out there in the new territory, and then find a bed for the evening.
