An organization’s brand is the main incarnation of its narrative.

All these geographic factors contributed to the early cultural and political unification of China, whereas western Europe, with a similar area but a more rugged terrain and no such unifying rivers, has resisted cultural and political unification to this day.

Our work is about throwing. The catching can take care of itself.

If Bob had been able as a child to express his disappointment with his mother—to experience his rage and anger—he could have stayed fully alive. But that would have led to the loss of his mother’s love, and that, for a child, can mean the same as death.

Our gut feelings signal what is safe, life sustaining, or threatening, even if we cannot quite explain why we feel a particular way.

All confrontation is a search for the truth, a two- person Beach Ball conversation. Each of us owns a piece of the truth, and neither of us owns all of it.

In ratio to the duration and increasing strength of authority its advantages for its subjects disappear and its disadvantages increase.

Kindness’s near enemy is selflessness. Many of us were taught that selflessness is a good thing, but failing to set boundaries and take care of your own needs will quickly burn you out. As the saying goes, you can’t pour from an empty cup—you can’t help anyone if you’ve used up all of your strength.

You can step up and lead at any point in your life

While playing, an infant learns to concentrate and gets in the habit of making discoveries, one of which is the joy of feeling absorbed by what they are doing.