Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

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

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

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.’