we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

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

Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

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

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.