“innovate our way to new possibilities that right now seem unimaginable. The longer we wait to set out on such a strategic path though, the deeper the pail out of which we will have to climb.” (1)

Think about it…

Directions

(1) Friedman, Thomas L. Hot, Flat & Crowded- Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America, Copyright © 2008 Farrar, Straus & Giroux New York, NY p. 49.

“Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down, and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.” – Page 150 – Greg Mortenson – Three Cups of Tea – One Man’s Mission To Promote Peace…One School at a Time

“We are not the first people in history to find ourselves with too much information and too little understanding.”

Chittister, Joan In Search of Belief, Ligouri/Triumph Ligouri, Missouri Copyright © 1999 by Joan Chittister P. 7

“It is fools, they say, who learn by experience. But since they do at least learn, let a fool bring his experience into the common stock that wiser men profit by it.”

Lewis, C.S. The Timeless Writings of C.S. Lewis, Family Christian Press & Wm B. Erdman’s Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mi. Inspirational Press Edition, A Division of BBS Publishing Corp. © 2004 p.xxxiii.

“Today, more than ever, we need people with the courage to tell the plain truth. We need brave men and women who refuse to trumpet platitudes, or take stale ideas off the rack. That is why we must cherish those people who have the guts to speak the truth: mavericks, whistle-blowers, disturbers of the public peace.

Hamill, Pete Words Worth Fighting For, Fast Company Magazine, Issue Number 86, September 2004, © 2004 by Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing p.90-91

“If outsiders stop listening, we cannot just turn up the volume.”

P. 84 Kinnaman, David & Lyons, Gabe UNchristian – What A New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity…And Why It Matters Baker Books Grand Rapids, MI Copyright 2007 by Dabvid Kinnaman and Fermi Project.

Peterson, Eugene H. The Jesus Way – A conversation on the ways that Jesus is the way, William B. Eerdsman Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI Copyright © 2007 by Eugene H. Peterson. P. 47

Peterson, Eugene H. The Jesus Way – A conversation on the ways that Jesus is the way, William B. Eerdsman Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI Copyright © 2007 by Eugene H. Peterson. P. 22

“We live in an age of heretics: an age where unconventional ideas become conventional wisdom rapidly. And that’s a good thing. Because the future of industrial society depends upon our ability to transcend the destructive management of the past and build a better kind of future. That doesn’t mean embracing every unconventional idea. Nor does it mean flouting authority. A heretic is someone who sees a truth that contradicts the conventional wisdom.” Pp. 3-4 And yet corporate heretics may be the closest thing we have, in our self-contradictory time, to a true conscience of large organizations. Many of them have lost their jobs or failed to reach their potential because they would not turn back from the truth they saw. Despite all of these frustrations, it is better to be a heretic than to have one’s soul wither through the denial of a truth. And in the end, the corporations of our time are much, much better because heretics existed.” Pp. 13-14.

The Age of Heretics – The History of Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management: Copyright © 2008 by Art Kleiner – Published by Jossey-Bass:

“The walls of the echo chamber can sometimes keep out fresh voices and new ways of thinking.”

—-Barak Obama 11-26-08 – CNN.com