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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
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Economist
Engineer
Pedagogue
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Stanford
California
Peter M. Senge
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Learning cannot be disassociated from action.
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When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
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When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.
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Don't push growth remove the factors limiting growth.
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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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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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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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The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
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In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.
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A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.
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The easy way out usually leads back in.
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The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .
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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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