I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.

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.

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

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

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

We need to be the authors of our own life.

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