144 Quotes by Peter Senge

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 get solved.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

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

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

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

Leadership is about creating new realities.