Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.