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The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

Peter Senge

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Author
Economist
Engineer
Pedagogue
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Stanford
California
Peter M. Senge
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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?
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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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Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.
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We need to be the authors of our own life.
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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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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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The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.
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Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.
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Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.
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The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.
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Don't push growth remove the factors limiting growth.
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In great teams conflict becomes productive.
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Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
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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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In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.
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It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
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Learning cannot be disassociated from action.
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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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The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .
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One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.
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