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

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

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.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.