The easy way out usually leads back in.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

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

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.