Peter Senge Quotes

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• Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Discipline, Systems Change

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.59, Random House

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• Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

  Peter Senge

  Growth, Factors, Remove

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• A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Capacity, Expanding

  "The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge (p. 14), en.wikiquote.org. 1990.

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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.

  Peter Senge

  Commitment, Organization, People

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• Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

  Peter Senge

  Information Sharing, Creating, Information Knowledge

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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?

  Peter Senge

  Heart, Ideas, People

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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.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Keys, Key To Success

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• The world is made of Circles
  And we think in straight Lines

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Circles, World

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• Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.

  Peter Senge

  World, Able, Our Relationship

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.19, Random House

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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.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Organization, People

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Excellence, May

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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.

  Peter Senge

  Commitment, Nudge Nudge, Role Models

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• When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

  Peter Senge

  People, Different, Results

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• When you ask people 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.

  Peter Senge

  Team, People, Standing Out

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• Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Organization, People

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.12, Random House

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• Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Profound, Humanity

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• It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

  Peter Senge

  Skills, Vision, Clear

  Peter Senge (2012). “Schools That Learn (updated and revised second edition): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education”, p.342, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

  Peter Senge

  Team, Thinking, Ideas

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• Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Creating, People

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• Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

  Peter Senge

  Running, Long, Superior Performance

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• All great things have small beginnings.

  Peter Senge

  Life, Motivational, New Beginnings

  Peter Senge, Art Kleiner (2011). “The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization”, p.64, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

  Peter Senge

  Small Changes, Results, Bigs

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• Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

  Peter Senge

  Teaching, Learning, Able

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• The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

  Peter Senge

  Reality, People, Vision

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.159, Random House

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• 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

  Optimistic, Errors, People

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