In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature.… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.” — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of… — Peter Senge Copy Share
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed… — Peter Senge Copy Share
