Quotes by Peter Senge

Peter Senge

[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn’t mean that all of our aspirations must be “grand.” First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it’s a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy “great visions.”

Believe

Mean

What Matters

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?

Heart

Ideas

People

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.

Appreciation

Engagement

Focus

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn’t bad… We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

Environmental

Talking

Thinking

Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

Humanity

Organization

Profound

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that “thought” becomes an active agent, “participating” in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person’s behaviour. The prejudiced person can’t see how his prejudice shapes what he “sees” and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the “thought” of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder

Fall

Knowledge

Learning

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

Needed

Pursuit

Vision

How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?” The answer is. “It’s hard to imagine any way in which it hasn’t changed.They’re immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar.

Children

School

Teaching

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.

Reflection

Thinking

Two

If people don’t have their own vision, all they can do is ‘sign-up’ for someone else’s.

Can Do

People

Vision

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Action

Age

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Art

Authority

Believe

Bigs

Broken

Can Do

Capacity

Challenges

Change

Children

Circles

Clear

Commitment

Community

Conflict

Courage

Creating

Destiny

Differences

Different

Discipline

Ecological

Effort

Engagement

Environmental

Essence

Excellence

Fall

Financial

Focus

Framing

Fun

Glasses

Goal

Great Team

Growing

Heart

Humanity

Ideas

Individual

Information

Innovation

Inspirational

Intense

Knowledge

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Quotes by Peter Senge

Peter Senge

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?

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.

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn’t bad… We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

If people don’t have their own vision, all they can do is ‘sign-up’ for someone else’s.

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