Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context..

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a recipro….

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share….

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us..

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do..

As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations ….

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, usin….

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have ….

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence ….

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases..

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military..

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome..

Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else..

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisatio….

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, c….

All social change begins with a conversation..

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the sel….

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression..

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that affl….

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together..

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation..