Notes from "Navigating the Future: Servant-Leadership and Community Leadership in the 21st Century" by Margaret Wheatley

--We must learn to gather together differently

--"hurrying toward linear time makes us sad"

--ignoring seasons and cycles is dangerous

--We must take time to think and reflect

--look for NEWNESS, NOT PREDICTABILITY

--look for NEWNESS, SURPRISES, DIFFERENCE

--Tibetan Buddhism: the source of our grief is our belief in our separateness

--"It takes enormous courage to keep your heart open"

--the negative behavior of anger, & cynicism, & paralysis, & greed, is NOT who we are

--"Recall the clarity you once had, the truth you recognized ... how and when your heart leapt out..."

--"We have a human desire to be together and to make meaning of things." we constantly see why

--"People need us as leaders to find and evoke the healtfulness (not pathology) in us..."

--we need to feel free, to feel free to choose and participate

--"What is the goodness you saw when you were called forth to serve?"

--we need to see and call forth the goodness in others

--"He doesn't know where he's going, but he'll get us there."

--We don't need new plans and a new organizational chart--we need a new vision and mission (yet we trivialize these!)

--Trust people to find their own healing. When we are together, more is possible; joy is possible

--"The pattern that dominates in organizations is distrust."

--"Enter into the awareness of mystery!"

--"We need to raise our expectations of each other."