A collection of quotes from an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning, Peter Senge

1. A Collection of Quotes
from
Peter M. Senge
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2. Reference: Wikipedia
Peter Michael Senge is an American
systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at
the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-
faculty at the New England Complex
Systems Institute, and the founder of the
Society for Organizational Learning.
Born: 1947, Stanford, CA
Education: Stanford University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Sloan School of Management
Organizations founded: Society for
Organizational Learning
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3. “People don’t resist
change. They resist
being changed.”
- Peter M. Senge
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4. “System thinking is a
discipline of seeing
whole.”
- Peter M. Senge
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5. “The world is made of
circles and we think in
straight lines.”
- Peter M. Senge
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6. “How can we stop going
faster while our ability
to see further ahead is
decreasing.”
- Peter M. Senge
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“Alignment is the necessary condition before
empowering individuals with empower the
whole team. Empowering the
individual when there is
relatively low level of alignment
worsens the chaos and
makes managing the team
more difficult.”
– Peter M. Senge

8. “A learning organization is
a group of people who
are continually enhancing
their capabilities to create
what they want
to create.”
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9. “Leadership exists when
people are no longer
victims of circumstances,
but participate in
creating new
circumstances.”
- Peter M. Senge
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10. “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.”
- Peter M. Senge
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11. “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
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12. “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.”
- Peter M. Senge
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13. “The only sustainable
competitive advantage is
an organization’s ability
to learn faster than the
competition.”
- Peter M. Senge
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14. “It is not the absence of
defensiveness that
characterizes learning
teams but the way
defensiveness is faced.”
- Peter M. Senge
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15. “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
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16. “Mastery of creative
tension brings out the
capacity for perseverance
and patience. Time is an
ally.”
- Peter M. Senge
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17. “People “shift the burden”
of their problem to other
solutions—well-
intentioned, easy fixes
which seem extremely
efficient.”
- Peter M. Senge
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18. Reference: Wikipedia
“Through learning we
re-create ourselves.
Through learning we
become able to do
something we were
never able to do.”
- Peter M. Senge
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“Courage is simply
doing whatever is
needed in pursuit
of the vision.”
- Peter M. Senge
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“The most effective
people are those who
can "hold" their vision
while remaining
committed to seeing
current reality clearly.”
- Peter M. Senge
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21. Reference: Wikipedia
“Reality is made
up of circles but
we see straight
lines.”
- Peter M. Senge
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22. Reference: Wikipedia
“In the presence of
greatness, pettiness
disappears. In the
absence of a great
dream, pettiness
prevails.”
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