Occupation: Author Birth: 1940
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….
Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below..
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 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 ….
We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and ….
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected fir….
The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in..
Ones vision is not a road map but a compass..
To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return..
How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?.
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….
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life..
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy..
Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart..
If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions..
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..
It is hard to learn when we think we know something..
I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Makin….
We get the leaders we create..
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow..
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place.".