In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

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

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

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.