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

Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.