If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

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

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

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "no" then our "yes" has no meaning. Each needs the chance to express their doubts and reservations, without having to justify them, or move quickly into problem solving. No is the beginning of the conversation for commitment.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.