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We need to be the authors of our own life.

Peter Senge

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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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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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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The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
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One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.
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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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A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?
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The most effective people are those who can hold their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly
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The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.
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Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.
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In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.
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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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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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All great things have small beginnings.
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If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.
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Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.
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The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.
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Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.
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Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.
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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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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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