All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

We get the leaders we create.

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.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.