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

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.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly. They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They develop a richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person's point of view.

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