We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

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.’

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

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.