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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I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game?
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There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.
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If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.
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How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.
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A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.
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The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
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Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.
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All great things have small beginnings.
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Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.
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Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.
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It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.
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Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.
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Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
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In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.