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Peter M. Senge

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Famous Peter M. Senge Quotes

“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.”

Peter M. Senge

“You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.”

Peter M. Senge

“People don't resist change. They resist being changed.”

Peter M. Senge

“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.”

Peter M. Senge book The Fifth Discipline

Source: The Fifth Discipline (1990), p. 69

“In essence, leaders are people who "walk ahead," people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.”

Peter M. Senge

The Dance of Change (1999)

“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.”

Peter M. Senge

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (1994)

Peter M. Senge Quotes about learning

“"Learning organizations" [are] organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.”

Peter M. Senge

The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (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.”

Peter M. Senge

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.”

Peter M. Senge

The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
Context: Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. 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. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.

“In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers.”

Peter M. Senge

The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
Context: In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models – that is, they are responsible for learning.

“There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.”

Peter M. Senge

“Developing these learning capabilities lies at the heart of profound change.”

Peter M. Senge

The Dance of Change (1999)
Context: Mutual reflection. Open and candid conversation. Questioning of old beliefs and assumptions. Learning to let go. Awareness of how our own actions create the systemic structures that produce our problems. Developing these learning capabilities lies at the heart of profound change.