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.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

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

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

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

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.