Occupation: Author Birth: 1947
When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart..
Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committe….
Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to ….
Leadership is about creating new realities..
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering t….
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic..
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see..
In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money..
Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive ….
When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because ….
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 mea….
When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results..
In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality..
Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a do….
You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops..
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….
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us..
A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly. They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to dis….
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the l….
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….
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred.