The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage..

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….

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have….

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 ….

Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see..

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 ….

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality..

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….

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….

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

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world..

Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nat….

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 most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly.

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changin….

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally..

All great things have small beginnings..

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….

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

The faster we go, the slower we need to be..