From the Ground UP!

I watched a program the other day on Emergence.  I like using simple explanations for complicated things - because that's how nature does it.  So bizarre how nature provides us with answers to every day problems.
Emergence is the property in nature that guides a flock of birds or a school of fish - since there is NO LEADER how is this process guided?

It's guided from the ground up.  It's guided by the individuals in the system of birds or fish.. And it works because none of them is trying to lead or follow. Each element (or animal ) in the system has a specific function or behavior that all adhere to.  There is no leader in a flock of birds yet - they move together in harmony.  There is no leader in a school of fish - but it's one beautiful event to see a large school of fish moving as one gigantic organism through the sea.

People, survived for hundreds of thousands of years - as a group, a village, a family, a community thriving off of each individuals contribution to the whole.. and we conquered the world with it. There were times where tribes and cultures ruled.

Today's corporate structures don't follow that plan and we forget the success rate we had as a species for so long - when we watch out for others, when we cared for what we shared instead of what we owned. When we remember that we cannot own what was there before we arrived.  And we cannot keep what we cannot use.  Today we are missing our humanity.

So when we think of how to regain what we lost - we can learn from nature that in situations when numbers are great and resources are scarce the individual thrives when as a community they contribute, consume, and operate together..schools of fish or flocks of birds.. or people earning their keep.