In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

We need to be the authors of our own life.

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

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.’

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.