Gardens and factories, for all of their conspicuous differences, are similar in that they produce things and do so with high degree of predictability. Factories produce finished products. Gardens are places where fruits, vegetables, flowers, and plants mature.

In the marketplace, companies like Google and Ideo are more like gardens than factories. These companies thrive because they are full of fertile compost, permitting employees to be more creative, engaged, and productive.

Tragic is how pandemic the industrial factory sensibility is in many educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and corporations.

Fortunately places like Gutenberg College and St. Johns College serve as gardens that cultivate creative, collaborative learners and thinkers. These skills have become the x-factor in the 21st century marketplace.

Here’s an activity for you and people you work with. Feel free to print it out. Just click on the image and save it to your computer.

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