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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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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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Peter M. Senge
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The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .
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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 care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.
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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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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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If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.
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Don't push growth remove the factors limiting growth.
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The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.
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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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Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.
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The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
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It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
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How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years? The answer is. It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed.They're immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.
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