Explore Quotes by Peter Senge

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

The easy way out usually leads back in.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

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.

When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

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.

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

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

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

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.

The world is made of Circles_x000D_And we think in straight Lines

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.

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

[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

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 immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.