Peter Senge
Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.Collection: World
Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one another, who complemented each other's strengths and compensated for each other's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than an individual's goals, and who produced extraordinary results ... the team that became great didn't start off great-it learned how to produce extraordinary results.Collection: Team
It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.Collection: Water
I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.Collection: Leader
Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the visionCollection: Vision
When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.Collection: Change
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.Collection: Glasses
Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.Collection: Independence