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

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

Questions draw us together. Answers push us apart.

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 price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

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.