Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

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

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

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