It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

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

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

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 answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

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

New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.