Peter Senge Quotes

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• [Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial…
• Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
• Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world…
• Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
• You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is…
• Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.
• Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to…
• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity,…
• Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured,…
• The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
• When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
• Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than…
• When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.
• In great teams conflict becomes productive.
• The easy way out usually leads back in.
• We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.
• It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources…
• Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he…
• Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.
• Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice…

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