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.

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

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.

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

We need to be the authors of our own life.