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"For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together."
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"In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us."
"I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation."
"In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise."
"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
"In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."
"Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem."
"Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions."
"In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable."
"And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive."
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