Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

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.

If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

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

The faster we go, the slower we need to be.