Peter Senge

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

— Peter Senge

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

— Peter Senge

Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.

— Peter Senge

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

— Peter Senge

If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

— Peter Senge

One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.

— Peter Senge

Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the…

— Peter Senge

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis…

— Peter Senge

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals…

— Peter Senge

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your…

— Peter Senge

In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind…

— Peter Senge

How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way…

— Peter Senge

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…

— Peter Senge

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…

— Peter Senge

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values.…

— Peter Senge

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm…

— Peter Senge

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that…

— Peter Senge

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives…

— Peter Senge

I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have…

— Peter Senge

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in…

— Peter Senge

New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that…

— Peter Senge

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years…

— Peter Senge

“In combating cynicism, it helps to know its source. Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustated idealist –…

— Peter Senge

We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a…

— Peter Senge

Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of…

— Peter Senge

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not…

— Peter Senge

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

— Peter Senge

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

— Peter Senge

Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning…

— Peter Senge

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

— Peter Senge

“The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.”

— Peter Senge

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

— Peter Senge

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

— Peter Senge

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

— Peter Senge

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

— Peter Senge

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

— Peter Senge

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

— Peter Senge

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

— Peter Senge

If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.

— Peter Senge

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that…

— Peter Senge