Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.

One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.

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

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.