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#42 One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

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It is nineteen ninety three. Nine years since I abruptly severed all connection with the business world for life on the land. It is still hard to believe. After sixteen years of intense conflict with industrial age. command and control corporations.

After thirty five years. Dreaming of new concepts of organization and experimenting with them. After two impossible years bringing one of those dreams into being. After fourteen year fourteen grueling years leading it to maturity After all that

Turning my back on Visa in nineteen eighty four and walking away at the pinnacle of success. Was the hardest thing I have ever done. The reason is still difficult to explain. But it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied.

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