Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

In any system, there will be change happening without you.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.