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A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Peter Senge

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.
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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.
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People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.
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Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.
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It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
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When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.
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Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the rubber stamp meets the road unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.
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When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.
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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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