California Medical Association Fifth Annual Leadership Academy
Creating the Future of Health Care
La Quinta, CA
November 16-18, 2001
Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA International, and Founder, The Chaordic Commons:
“Only with the evolution of a self-organizing, Chaordic, transcendent organization in which all parties have an appropriate voice in governance –in which the whole does not control the parts and the parts do not control the whole — in which competition and cooperation are harmoniously blended — in which public and private entities are seamlessly related –can order emerge and a universal, effective, low-cost system of health evolve. Such a governance structure could be put in place within two years, could extend nationwide within five and expand globally within a few more.”
“It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.”