I have been reading Charles Handy's book 'The Empty Raincoat: New Thinking for a New World'. It Identifies the paradoxes of our times. A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition... and there are a lot of them about...

• the paradox of intelligence;
• the paradox of work;
• the paradox of productivity;
• the pardox of time;
• the paradox of riches;
• the paradox of organisations;
• the paradox of age;
• the paradox of the individual;
• the paradox of justice.

Handy identifies a solution for those of us who sometimes wonder what it is all about. The reason for our doing and our being, he argues, is built on three senses:

• the sense of continuity;
• the sense of connection; and
• the sense of direction.

It's worth reading...

Chris