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.

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

Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

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

Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.