Three-fingered salute taught to University of Manitoba students
If two fingers mean “peace,” what do three fingers mean?
According to Philip McMaster, a lecturer at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the three fingers stand for “Society, environment, and economy.”
He devised the salute to teach bottom-line business students, children afraid of global warming, and famous entrepreneurs alike that “you can’t have one without the other.”
“Anyone with a hand and three fingers has got the truth,” McMaster said. “I call it . . . ‘An Optimistic Truth’ — you’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. If you’re part of the solution, then you’re with millions of other people who are making the world a better place.”
McMaster was at the University of Manitoba on Sept. 6 to give a lecture on his DragonTHINK /“SEE” principle (Hand of Gaia) at the invitation of business professor Barry Prentice of the Asper School of Management.
McMaster tied Prentice’s research, into the feasibility of airship transportation to Canada’s North, to his three-finger approach: it benefits the “society, environment and economy” of both the North and South, he said.
The three fingers are like “neurolinguistic programming,” McMaster said: “if you say it enough times to yourself, and the balance between Society, Environment and Economy (SEE) become part of your thinking process, then that’s what you’re going to do.”
From THE MANITOBAN http://www.themanitoban.com/2007-2008/0912/111.In.Brief.php
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