With all the Jim Collins talk of the ‘hedgehog concept”* I thought an image of an actual hedgehog was in order. This particular young hedgehog was minding it’s own business , by a hedge, in the garden of The Three Swallows, in the Glaven Valley, Norfolk, UK.

(*See his website for the genesis of the metaphor and his use of Isaiah Berlin’s notion that people are either hedgehogs or foxes.)

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