144 Quotes by Peter Senge

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.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

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.

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.

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.