1. A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. ~Confucius
2. Acceptance of an emergent world means that we can no longer stand at the end of something we visualize in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead, we must stand at the beginning, clear in our intent, with a willingness to be involved in discovery. We must participate more than plan. ~Margaret Wheatley
3. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. ~Abraham Lincoln
4. Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Arthur D. Little
5. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ~Sun Tzu
6. The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn’t know what it will be until it notices what it has just become. ~Margaret Wheatley