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

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

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

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

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

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

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.