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 than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

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

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.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

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. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.

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