Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.