•Ripeness

Ideas take off most easily when they give 1...... shape to something that is already 'trying to 2....... out'. 'Ideas' people are like artists—both try 3...... express possibilities that are just under the surface 4...... the world around them. If the technical, organisational, 5..... and personal conditions are not 'ripe' even the 6...... idea will need a lot of 'power' to 7. ..... anywhere, and the systems in which it is 8. ..... may be severely distorted in the process. Change 9...... much easier and less destructive when people are 10. for it. If you want to row a 11. .... boat across a fast river you must find 12...... to let the current help you rather than 13...... to battle against it.
Flight has been around 14...... an idea for thousands of years. But only 15...... century have the necessary technology and resources and 15..... needs for long distance travel come together. The 16...... of a democratically responsive world is also an 17...... one. Is the time ripe?
If changes work 18....... when conditions are ripe, they will often be 19...... But they don't have to be. The caterpillar, 20...... chrysalis, the butterfly and the egg, are about 21...... different as they could be—but each emerges 22..... its predecessor when the conditions are ripe. If 23..... tensions are large, they may resolve easily into 24..... very different form. But deeper structures are often 25..... to change quickly, except in chaotic ways. A 26..... won’t change into a moth. Of course if 27..... want a more radical change than the system 28..... ready for, there is nothing to stop you 29..... to speed up the process of ripening!


•Timing
A complex system is a complex machine. It 30..... all sorts of internal cycles, and sequences—committee 31....., accounting periods, academic years, projects that start and 32...... at certain times, contract deadlines, sequences of operations 33..... mustn't be interrupted once started, personal career cycles 34........ significant members, periods of optimism or gloom, and 35..... on.
If you want to adjust this 'machine', 36...... have to match your movements and timing to 37....... . If you don't, you are likely to miss 38..... bus.
If you catch the organisers at the 39........ points in a system of committee cycles, you 40....... be able to get through a whole series 41.... political stages in a fortnight. A couple of 42...... later, and it may take months, during which 43...... sorts of things may change. You need to 44..... your finger on the many pulses of the 45......, and know how they inter-connect. Often there are 46..... a handful of people who have the necessary 47...... of the machinery and they will not necessarily 48...... willing to put their skill at your disposal.
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