ABSTRACT
Underlying the following discussion of initiatives are three basic assumptions, all quite obvious yet all important. The first is that all initiatives and organizations are human creations, no matter how old and well established. They are created by people with an idea in response to a perceived need and they are continuously being modified by people’s ideas and actions. A school, a cafe, a company, may well carry something of the personality of the founders, but it is changed by the ideas and aspirations of those who now share responsibility. So we live and move in a world created by nature and in a large and increasingly complex institutional world created by people.
