Occupation: Author Birth: 1940
As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters..
Ones vision is not a road map but a compass..
We get the leaders we create..
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 ….
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 "….
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..
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow..
If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy..
The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business..
How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?.
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life..
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..
Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart..
To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return..
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to ….
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 ….
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and….
The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty..
It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others..
The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts..