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

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.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

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