Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

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.

Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

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.