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

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.