The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in..

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts..

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business..

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 ….

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..

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy..

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 ….

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters..

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and….

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow..

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life..

How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?.

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "….

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return..

Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected fir….

Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart..

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty..

We get the leaders we create..

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point t….

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go..

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions..