When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.

The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.

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