In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.
Peter SengeThe rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.
Peter SengePersonal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
Peter SengeMastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.
Peter SengeMany children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
Peter SengeThe difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.
Peter SengeThe problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.
Peter Senge