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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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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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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Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.
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Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.
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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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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.