In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

All great things have small beginnings.

The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.

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.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

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

Now I know I'm not broken, For the stars within my soul, Have just built constellations, To keep me feeling whole.

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!

Battles I lose none I make crews run I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

Hope is the mother of faith.