Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

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.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

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

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.