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The easy way out usually leads back in.

Peter Senge

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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Economist
Engineer
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Stanford
California
Peter M. Senge
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If there is genuine potential for growth, build capacity in advance of demand, as a strategy for creating demand. Hold the vision, especially as regards assessing key performance and evaluating whether capacity to meet potential demand is adequate.
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Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
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Don't push growth remove the factors limiting growth.
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Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.
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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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Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.
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Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us.
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In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.
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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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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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We need to be the authors of our own life.
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Knowledge is constructed, not transferred
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Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
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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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Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.
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When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.
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When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
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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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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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