The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.