What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.