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
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.
stress vision compass
You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.
reality people vision
The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly
skills vision clear
It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.
reality challenges vision
In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.
glasses vision framing
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.
vision pursuit needed
Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
people vision want
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 they want to.
firm invested taught theory
You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.
likes living nobody stuff throw
Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.
failure leadership strategies
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.
In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.
age human
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.