Occupation: Author Birth: 1947
Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can ….
Learning cannot be disassociated from action..
[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 visi….
Leadership is about creating new realities..
Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a do….
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 th….
By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play..
Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision..
In great teams conflict becomes productive..
We need to be the authors of our own life..
Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision.
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….
Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in sha….
Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually c….
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….
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of chang….
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….
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..
You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops..
In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually..
Knowledge is constructed, not transferred.