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

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

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

Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.