Peter Senge
Peter Senge
Peter Michael Sengeis an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as the author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
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In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.
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When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.
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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.
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Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.
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Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.
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Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
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Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.
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The easy way out usually leads back in.
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Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.
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All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.
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Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
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Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.
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We need to be the authors of our own life.
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The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.