Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.
We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.
Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.
The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.
The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.
The shift in the world begins with a shift in our thinking. Shifting our thinking does not change the world, but it creates a condition where the shift in the world becomes possible.
One’s vision is not a road map but a compass.
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can’t get you there.
The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.
It is hard to learn when we think we know something.
Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.
To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can’t swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.
If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.
Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.
We get the leaders we create.
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.
We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.
We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.