We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

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

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.

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.

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

How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

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