“One-the-job teaming and learning requires leaders who have the imagination and courage to figure out how to proceed without answers - leaders who offer clear direction, a tolerance for risk and failure, and an explicit invitation to work closely with others.” - Amy Edmondson

“A hard but hopeful look at the troubling saste of health amongst Canada’s Indigenous peoples and an examination of it’s casues. Not just the Indian Act, the residential schools and the segregated and under-funded Indian hospitals, but the also the systemic racism that is still a driving force.” - Gary Geddes

“To those who want sustainable organizations and communities, my advice is: begin by being humble. Go back to school. Learn awareness. Learn about rank. You will save yourself and your community a lot of pain.” - Arnold Mindell

“Proficient teaming often requires integrating perspectives from a range of disciplines, communicating despite the different mental models that accompany different areas of expertise, and being able to manage the inevitable conflicts that arise when people work together.” - Amy Edmondson

“Power has two sides, one generative and one degenerative. Our power is generative and amplifying when we realize ourselves while loving and uniting with others. Our power is degenrative and constraining - reckless and abusive or worse - when we overlook or deny or cut off our love and unity.” - Adam Kahane

“Teachings come from everywhere when you open yourself up to them. That’s the trick of it, really. Open yourself to everything, and everything opens itself to you.” - Richard Wagamese

“What does it mean to hold space for someone else? It means that we are willing to walk alongside another person in whatever journey they're on without judging them, making them feel inadequate, trying to fix them, or trying to impact the outcome.” - Heather Plett

"Presence"--a concept borrowed from the natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its parts--to the worlds of business, education, government, and leadership. Too often, we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and acting.” Senge et al.

“Systems thinking for social change affects people not only cognitively but also emotionally, spiritually, and behaviorally. As you build your capacity to think systemically, you will discover that the tools both enable and require you to develop a new way of being, not just doing—a set of character traits to cultivate (such as curiosity, compassion, and courage) that complement and deepen your new skills.” - David Stroh

“Isn’t there a way to break the patterns of the past and tune into our highest future possibility—and to begin to operate from that place?” - Otto Scharmer

“Humble Inquiry is the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person. It’s an essential art to collaboration, culture, change and leadership.” - Edgar Schein