You are currently viewing the James Walker Global website.
One spring, the village’s ancient wooden gate—the only way to keep the mountain goats out of the vegetable patches—finally crumbled. The mayor approached the trio with a plea: "Build us a gate that is strong, welcoming, and smart enough to never get stuck." The Three Approaches
spent three days measuring the humidity. "If the wood expands by 0.2 percent, the latch will fail!" he fretted. He designed a complex series of pulleys that no one understood. The Helpful Realization horst_schorsch_und_dieter
was a mountain of a man with hands like dinner plates, a master carpenter who believed if a thing wasn’t solid enough to survive a hurricane, it wasn't finished. One spring, the village’s ancient wooden gate—the only
wanted to use iron-reinforced oak beams three feet thick. "Strength is everything!" he boomed. But the gate became so heavy it wouldn't budge. He designed a complex series of pulleys that
thinned down the oak beams, making them sturdy but light enough to swing.
"Horst," Dieter said quietly, "your gate is a fortress, but it’s a wall, not a door.""Schorsch," Horst added, "your vines are lovely, but they’ve turned the gate into a hedge.""And Dieter," Schorsch laughed, "your pulleys are so complicated that the goats will have eaten the town before we open them."
(a classic nickname for Georg) was a quick-witted gardener. He had a "green thumb" that seemed more like magic; he could talk a stubborn rosebush into blooming in the frost.