Peter Senge Quotes

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• We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place.… Along
• A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future. Capacity
• When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People… Ask
• When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise. Extraordinary
• Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency… Ability
• If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's. All
• The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at… All
• Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious. Areas
• Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about… All
• Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven… Been
• Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see. Determine
• You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization… Always Thought
• Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. Doomed
• The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature. Challenge
• In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble. Approaching
• In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money. Age
• The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You… Broken
• Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period… Companies
• Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic. Democratic

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