Peter Senge
Peter Senge
Peter Michael Sengeis an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as the author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
thinking reflection two
I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.
team conflict great-team
In great teams conflict becomes productive.
gains individual insight
In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.
people different results
When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.
community shapes capacity
The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
thinking broken people
The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.
age term humans
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.
government democratic term
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
thinking culture vets
It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
mean commitment roots
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 challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.
team growing individual
When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.
learning pace information
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 interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.
people vision ifs
If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.
powerful excellence vision
Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.