Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

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

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.

We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

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

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly