High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.