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
commitment nudge-nudge role-models
You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.
team people standing-out
When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest.
organization expanding capacity
A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.
great-things small-beginnings
All great things have small beginnings.
thinking reflection two
I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.
In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.
thinking keys key-to-success
The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.