Peter M. Senge
Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions."
--from the author's website
“Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life”
Peter M. Senge
“vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end”
Peter M. Senge
“the bad leader is he who the people despise; the good leader is he who the people praise; the great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves”
Peter M. Senge
“It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced”
Peter M. Senge
“The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly”
Peter M. Senge
“In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.”
Peter M. Senge
“Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision”
Peter M. Senge
“Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.”
Peter M. Senge