The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.
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.
How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?
We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.
To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.
Every parent’s deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel “you are welcome here and that you came to the right place.”
As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.
Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.
Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.