Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."

It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

My gut sense is there's something necessary going on and if I'm too fearful or angry, I feel like I'm feeding it.

True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.