Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

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

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

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

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 status quo.