Occupation: Author Birth: 1947
Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally..
All great things have small beginnings..
One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation..
If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innov….
Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended pe….
In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the con….
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn..
Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces o….
The faster we go, the slower we need to be..
It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce ….
People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choos….
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny..
Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and….
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 ….
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want ….
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants..
Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success..
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence ..
I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me perso….
Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline ….
Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to f….