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.

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

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

One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.

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

We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.

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