our work in three words
“Beauty has three requirements: integrity, harmony, and clarity.*”
Integrity, Harmony, Clarity
Beauty remains of course in the eye of the beholder, but it's useful and necessary to define the characteristics by which beautiful or well-formed work can be judged. These three words perfectly describe the basis of the work we do on our clients' behalf.
Throughout our work, we strive to keep your trust through demonstrated professional integrity. Integrity as "wholeness" is also fundamental to our approach: each client's situation is unique and must be apprehended as a complex greater than the sum of its parts, considering the human, economic, environmental & social elements.
The best analysis and insight is gained when all parties collaborate harmoniously, when our work is consonant with your goals and values. We scale our efforts proportionate to the means necessary to derive a fitting answer for the results you seek.
We strive always to communicate directly and with clarity. In action we are transparent about our objectives, and open about our methods. Our goal is providing perfectly apt advice, solutions and actions for your particular requirements.
* It's interesting how Aquinas's orginal fleshes out the popular condensed version quoted above. He writes:
" ... [speciarum sive] pulchritudinem tria requiruntur. Primo quidem, integritas sive perfectio. Et debita proportio sive consonantia. Et iterum claritas."
Which could be translated: "Ideal form or beauty has three requirements. First, it must have inegrity, or perfection. And, just propotions or consonance. Lastly it must have clarity, or radiance."
James Joyce has his character Stephen Dedalus expound brilliantly on the topic in chapter five of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."