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Structures of which we are una...

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Commitment to the truth...mean...

Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

It is a testament to our naГЇv...

It is a testament to our naГЇvetГ© about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

When executives lead as teache...

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

I think the terminology I woul...

I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Trusting people to be creative...

Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

By using the systems archetype...

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to 'structureЂќ the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Mental models are deeply ingra...

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

The company-as-a-machine model...

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

The Industrial Age is not sust...

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Governments, especially democr...

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Innovation requires resources ...

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

In the Machine Age, the compan...

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Theres a lot of American kids ...

Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Dialogue starts with the willi...

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

We tend to think that, in a tr...

We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun

Peter Senge 108 quotes

In dialogue, individuals gain ...

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

It's common to say that trees ...

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the livi

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Consider prejudice. Once a per...

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that 'thought' becomes an active agent, 'participating' in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he 'sees' and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the 'thought' of prejudice must remain hidden to

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Learning is all about connecti...

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.

Peter Senge 108 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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