The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

All great things have small beginnings.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.