Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

If there is genuine potential for growth, build capacity in advance of demand, as a strategy for creating demand. Hold the vision, especially as regards assessing key performance and evaluating whether capacity to meet potential demand is adequate.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.