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

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

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

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.

All great things have small beginnings.