You can see that the black regions in the upper right quadrant are the areas where he had surgery.

Germany, my own country, in the year 2000, featured in the lower quadrant, below average performance, large social disparities.

We've created systems, which systematically privilege, encourage, one narrow quadrant of the human soul and left the others unregarded.

We all want to be there, in the upper right quadrant, where performance is strong and learning opportunities are equally distributed.

And all that raises, of course, the question What can we learn from those countries in the green quadrant who have achieved high levels of equity, high levels of performance, and raised outcomes?

And if actually we created a Ministry of Detail and business actually had Chief Detail Officers, then that fourth quadrant, which is so woefully neglected at the moment, might finally get the attention it deserves.

In the Northwest Quadrant of British Columbia, an area of land the size of Oregon, there's one road, a narrow ribbon of asphalt that slips up the side of the Coast Mountains to the Yukon.