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An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

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Peter Senge
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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Stanford
California
Peter M. Senge
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The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .
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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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Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.
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The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines
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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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When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
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In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.
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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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Don't push growth remove the factors limiting growth.
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We need to be the authors of our own life.
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The easy way out usually leads back in.
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Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.
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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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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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Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
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All great things have small beginnings.
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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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By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.
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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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The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.
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