Peter Senge Quotes - Page 5

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• The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.

  Peter Senge

  Lying, Organization, Differences

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.34, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Practice, Organization

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• I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Greatness, Organization

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• One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.

  Peter Senge

  People, Innovation, Care

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• If you want to see the future of management education you should go to see Team Academy.

  Peter Senge

  Team, Want, Management

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• The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.

  Peter Senge

  Mean, Thinking, Dragons

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

  Peter Senge

  Government, Democratic, Term

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• Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

  Peter Senge

  Learning, Knowledge, Practice

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