We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.