Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

Nothing fails like success.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!