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The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

Peter Senge

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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Stanford
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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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Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
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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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