Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

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

Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.