  Emily Plews, MBA/MS 2010     (Pardon the language.)   Read
more.  Given that this is all I know of the story, please
forgive (and hopefully enjoy) the assumptions, creative license,
and inference I make about the context.   Imagine you are on a
plane with your closest, trusted friends.   All of the sudden
the plane goes haywire and you know your life and the life of
all others around you is at stake.  Your competent friends are
paralyzed by fear, at a loss for possible solutions, and
resigned to what seems inevitable.  Is it possible, under these
conditions, to see opportunity?  The answer to this question
about one man, on one plane, in these circumstances is
particularly relevant right now to humanity.   I’ll explain
through an analogy.  If earth is the plane and humanity the
passengers, then the myriad of social and environmental problems
we face- wars, resource scarcity, poverty, etc- represent the
complicated problems that could/ are triggering an untimely
descent.  A host of people, myself included, a