Peter Senge

Quotes

• “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.”
• “When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.”
• “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.”
• “"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.”
• “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.”
• “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.”

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Key facts

Born

1947 (age 78 – 79), Los Angeles , California

Alma mater

MIT Ph.D,1978; M.S.,1972, Stanford University B.S.

Known for

The Fifth Discipline , Learning organization

Fields

Systems science

Institutions

MIT , New England Complex Systems Institute

Thesis

The system dynamics national model investment function: a comparison to the neoclassical investment function. (1978)

Doctoral advisor

Nathaniel Mass

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