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Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Values are more important than money.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.