Robert Thompson, Author at Restore Commons

Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson is a thought leader, entrepreneur, executive coach and speaker, and the creator of Thought Grenades: a blog series that offers listeners simple but solid solutions to creating positive community results. The latest series on Thought Grenades, entitled Leadership for the Common Good, focuses on “real leaders, solving real problems, in real time.”

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Paying it Forward on Steroids

Edgar Cahn, founder of TimeBanks, was a guest on Thought Grenades talking about how TimeBanking is an extraordinary way of giving and receiving that builds supportive networks and strong communities.

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Change Thoughts about Money … Change the World

Robert Thompson of leadersinsideout.com sits down with Tim Soerens and Kevin Jones, founders of the SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) Conference, to discuss money and how it is not working for us in a way that creates the kind of lives we should all be living.

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The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

John McKnight

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

Bross’s paradox

Most communities can be compared to a football game where 30,000 people who need the exercise turn up to watch 36 people who don’t.

Peter Kenyon

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henry Miller

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

When we meet, I am talking to myself and you are spying on me.

Leroy

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged-but not until I get down to a size eight.

Henriette Mantel

I have tried to teach service to my husband and revolution to my son.

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Education is never neutral. It always involves a project…either keep things the same or change them.

Paolo Friere

Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

Clint Kemp

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

Our communities are broken. For the ones that look whole, the price is being born somewhere else.

Jim Keene

Though the commons is everywhere, it is nonetheless little noticed. For economists, it is a kind of inchoate mass that awaits the vivifying hand of the market to attain life. Forests are worthless until they become timber, just as quiet is worthless until it becomes advertising.

Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.

Ronnie Shakes

If your time hasn’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Meyer A Perlstein

Questions are fateful. They determine destinations. They are the chamber through which destiny calls.

Godwin Hlatshwayo