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The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems..
When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart..
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic..
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms..
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see..
We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-qualit….
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It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. T….
The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's mi….
Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning..
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach th….
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….
Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do..
Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines..
Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one….
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….
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the l….
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….
The capacity of a human community to shape it's future..
We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry..
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nat….