Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

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

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.

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