PART ONE

INTRODUCTION

Purpose and Possibility

IF YOU WANT TO HELP your organization, your community, and your society thrive in a changing world, this book is for you. If you want to mobilize greater progress on the issues most important to you, this book is for you.

If you want to strengthen your practice of leadership no matter where you sit in your society or organization, this book is for you.

If you want to help others strengthen their capacity for change, as a trainer, coach, consultant, facilitator, or friend, this book is for you.

This book is about possibility. Not daydreaming, wishful-thinking possibility, but rather a roll-up-your-sleeves, optimistic, realistic, couragegenerating, and make-significant-progress kind of possibility. ...

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