The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

Learning and performance will become one and the same thing. Everything you say about learning will be about performance. People will get the point that learning is everything.