Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

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.

As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

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.