Quotes from Peter Senge

When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. Some spend the rest of their lives looking for ways to recapture that spirit.

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

Knowledge is the capacity for effective action.

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning , we become able to do things we never could and to extend our capacity to be part of the generative process of life.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.

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

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

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

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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The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.