Peter Senge Quotes

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• Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the…
• Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the…
• You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.
• The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any…
• In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence…
• In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.
• It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
• A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the…
• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.
• Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get…
• I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to…
• People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to…
• Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the…
• People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their…
• 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…
• All great things have small beginnings.
• How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it…
• Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
• All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.
• Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

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