When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hiera… - Peter Senge

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

In essence, leaders are people who "walk ahead," people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. 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. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.