Learning Organization Quotes

• 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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• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

  Don Tapscott

  Successful, Organization, Needs

  Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.252, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Many organizations are now trying to walk under the banner of The Learning Organization, realizing that knowledge is our most important product ... But the only place that I've seen it is in the Army. As one colonel said, "We realized a while ago that it's better to learn than be dead."

  Walter Wriston

  Army, Organization, Important

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• A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

  Reuven Feuerstein

  Education, Learning, Self

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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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• Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Expectations, Frustrated

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

  Peter Senge

  Vision, Pursuit, Needed

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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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• 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.

  Peter Senge

  Appreciation, Focus, Engagement

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• Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.

  Tom Peters

  Organization, Ideas, Arrogance

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• Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Circles, Lines

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.63, Random House

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

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Circles, World

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• In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

  Robert Fritz

  Dream, Absence, Pettiness

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• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Confusion

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