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
teaching unique community
All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.
unseen-forces process structure
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.
learning knowledge unique
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.
needs
We need to be the authors of our own life.
years people majority
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
growth factors remove
Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.
learning pace information
Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.
team growing individual
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.
team thinking ideas
In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.
action
Learning cannot be disassociated from action.
team want management
If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.
mistake perspective luck
The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
age term humans
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.
learning knowledge practice
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.