It seemed to fit where ICA-USA finds itself today.

From Kenya to Colorado and Jim Collins, author of From Good to Great.  Collins describes the Hedgehog concept—the winning focus of organizations that went from mediocrity to superior performance—as the intersection of three circles:

1. What are you deeply passionate about?  Understand what your organization stands for (its core values) and why it exists (its mission or core purpose).
   
   
2. What can you be best in the world at?  Understand what your organization can uniquely contribute to the people it touches, better than any other organization on the planet.
   
   
3. What drives your resource engine?  Understand what best drives your resource engine, broken into three parts: time, money and brand.
   
   “The critical step in the Hedgehog Concept is to determine how best to connect all three circles, so that they reinforce each other.  You must be able to answer the questions, ‘How does focusing on what we can do best tie directly to our resource engine, and how does our resource engine directly reinforce what we can do best?’  And you must be right.”

What is the value proposition of ICA today?  I look at our past, the times when a thousand people met at 4750 Sheridan Road and didn’t want to go to sleep for fear they would miss something.  Innovation and service—there’s the ticket.  What is the unfinished business of ICA? 
Think of a think tank devoted to discovering new forms of participation.  Think tanks get grants, fund research, and promulgate findings to deepen human understanding. 
Looking back at the research that preceded the gatherings in Chicago, the deep dives into what mattered, that is where the genius of ICA was born.  Can this genius be reborn?  A virtual think tank? 
ICA’s methods are great, and still work wonders.  Yet consider the discoveries of human interaction birthed since the birth of the methods: Appreciative inquiry, positive deviance, open space, the world cafe.  The world hungers for more ways to work well together. 
Leverage the learning in service to humanity.  To me, ICA-USA’s future is in discovery.
I wish you well.