Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

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

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

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