In great teams conflict becomes productive..

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

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny..

We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-qualit….

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that ar….

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success..

When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that ch….

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

The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of our highest ….

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems..

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision..

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence ..

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 c….

If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innov….

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and….

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the p….

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 fa….

We need to be the authors of our own life..

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry..

How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed.They're immers….

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