“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world – indeed it is the only thing that

ever has.” – Margaret Mead I love this! It goes to show the true power of commitment and the difference a committed few can have on the whole. Can you say Tipping Point?!

Compare the way a blue whale turns around (slowly) to how a school of fish turns around – specifically a school of sardines – which can have the same or even a greater mass than the whale, does the same thing. A school of sardines can turn almost instantly. What’s their secret? How do they know when to turn. Is it ESP? Do they use cell phones? Are the using the Internet The answer is simultaneously a little simpler and quite a bit more complex. If you take a careful look at a school of sardines, you’ll notice that although the fish all appear to be swimming in the same direction, in reality, at any time, there will be a small group of sardines swimming in a different direction, in an opposite direction, against the flow, against conventional wisdom. And as they swim in another direction, they cause conflict, they cause friction, and they causes discomfort for the rest of the school. But finally, when a critical mass of truly committed sardines is reached – not a huge number like 50 percent or 80 percent of the school, but 15 to 20 percent who are truly committed to a new direction – the rest of the school suddenly turns and goes

with them – almost instantaneously! http://www.fluency21.com/sardines.cfm