I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed.They're immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

All great things have small beginnings.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.