Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.