More dispatches from Dotland
Silver, ghost or no, was in her cubby all day, humming happily...moving pictures and bits of paper around... scrapbooking, maybe?...answering the occasional question about Folly. (The computer imps persist in calling it Fillet.) Purple, Sage, and Turquoise were going about their dotly duties. Navy, in her new identity of First Dit, sent a pigeon to bring greetings to Dotland. The pigeons are still not flying much. Is it the weather? Or has the Black Queens miasma so polluted the air that the pigeons can no longer fly.

On another note, Indigo and Silver heartily recommend a great article in the August issue of Educational Leadership, "Of hubs, bridges, and networks" by Douglas B. Reeves. No, it's NOT about technology, it about how the org. chart doesn't really show how things work. People are nodes. People who talk and listen to each other are hubs. People who talk and listen to lots of other people are superhubs. The Duke issues proclamations that are supposed to flow down the org chart. They don't because a lot of the folks on the org chart are not even hubs, much less superhubs. (Some of them are barely nodes!) If the Duke sought out the superhubs and listened and talked to them, maybe the proclamations would work better. There are also good hubs and toxic hubs. To quote the article

But whatever his or her merits, a toxic hub is not worth the
cost in heightened aggravation, lowered morale, and poor communication.

Sound like anyone we know?
Is it possible the White Queen has read the article? I'm quite sure that Black Dot Queen Magog and her sidekick, Gog, have not.