Tim Chen

“When trust is extended, it breeds responsibility in return. Emulation and peer pressure regulates the system better than hierarchy ever could.”
― Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

“Motivation is a fine example of social complexity. It is nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable. It cannot be defined or modeled with a single diagram.”
― Jurgen Appelo, Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders (Addison-Wesley Signature Series

“The crisis of our time isn’t just a crisis of a single leader, organization, country, or conflict. The crisis of our time reveals the dying of an old social structure and way of thinking, an old way of institutionalizing and enacting collective social forms.”
― C. Otto Scharmer, Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges

“But I still have to pay the bills tomorrow, and I am still going to grow old and die just like everybody else. So how can I ever say that I am free of time?”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment