They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

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