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Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Author
Economist
Engineer
Pedagogue
Philosopher
University Teacher
Writer
Stanford
California
Peter M. Senge
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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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The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
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One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.
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In great teams conflict becomes productive.
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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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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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Learning cannot be disassociated from action.
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Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.
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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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Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.
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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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The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .
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