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Margaret is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher. Her books include Leadership and the New Science and, most recently Perseverance. She is co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world who strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 6, 2010 Perseverance: Lost in the Gulf of Mexico
If you're watching or reading the news, do you feel as I do how broken we are as a people? Just like the storms we fear this hurricane season, we're lashing out wildly, raging, blaming, screaming for fixes, grasping blindly for life rafts. If we could sit together, surrendering our need to blame, and reclaiming our capacity to think, I believe we'd find our way through to solutions.