These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions