Occupation: Author Birth: 1947
In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually e….
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that ar….
When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results..
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 ….
When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have….
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering t….
It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear..
I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to c….
If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's..
Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive ….
In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality..
All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift..
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….
Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever..
I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace..
Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater inter….
Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never g….
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 the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money..
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..
Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committe….