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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
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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 easy way out usually leads back in.
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Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.
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Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.
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You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.
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When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
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Learning cannot be disassociated from action.
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Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
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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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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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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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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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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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It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
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Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
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The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.
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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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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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