Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

This is a world of process, not a world of things.

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

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

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

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.