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

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In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

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

Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

All great things have small beginnings.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.