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

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

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