Contents

Opening

Ancient Thera, Modern Teacher

Organizing: There is a Simpler Way

The New Story is Ours to Tell

The Irresistible Future of Organizing

The Promise and Paradox of Community

Relying on Human Goodness

The Best in Art and Life

Leadership: We Make the Road by Walking

Goodbye, Command and Control

Relying on Everyone’s Creativity

Bringing Life to Organizational Change

Working with Life’s Dynamics in School Systems

When Change is Out of Our Control

Leadership in Turbulent Times Is Spiritual

The True Professional

Obstacles: Where the Road Gets Hard

The Real Work of Knowledge Management

The Uses and Abuses of Measurement

Name, Connect, Nourish, Illuminate

Transforming Aggression into Creativity

Seven Hundred Years to Go

Personal: Attending to Our Footsteps

Living Our Interconnectedness

Willing to be Disturbed

Reclaiming Time to Think

Listening

Raising Our Children

Ending Our Silence

Everything Has a Deep Dream

My Own Footsteps

Consumed by Either Fire or Fire

Maybe You Will Be the Ones

America’s Dark Night

Beyond Hope or Fear

Dreaming World

A Parting Blessing

Notes

Where These Essays Were First Published

Bibliography

Permissions and Photo Credits

Index

About the Author