Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

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.

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

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.

I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.