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

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

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

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

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

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.