To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers, and generate options.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?

Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.