12 quotes
When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.
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.
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (1994)
A learning organization is an] organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers.
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we re-create ourselves.
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
In essence, leaders are people who "walk ahead," people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.
The Dance of Change (1999)
"Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist – someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations"
The Fifth Discipline (1990)
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.
The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
We believe that, ultimately, the most important learning occurs in the context of our day-to-day life, the aspirations we pursue, the challenges we face, and the responses we bring forth.
The Dance of Change (1999)
Systems thinking is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns rather than static snapshots. It is a set of general principles spanning fields as diverse as physical and social sciences, engineering and management
The Fifth Discipline (1990)
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing the 'structures' that underlie complex situations, and for discerning high from low leverage change. That is, by seeing wholes we learn how to foster health. To do so, systems thinking offers a language that begins by restructuring how we think.
The Fifth Discipline (1990)