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.

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.

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.

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

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

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.