The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

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

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

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

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.