Peter Senge Quotes

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains

If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.

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?

I firmly believe that when you have a foundation of respect, love of what you're doing, and a shared vision, so much is possible.

Learning organizations 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.

We shared the same vision.

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.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

We must come together with one heart, one mind, one love and one determination.

Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.

In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.

In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.

On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

The fastest growing segment of the population in the world right now is over the age of 90, and in some cases over the age of 100 in some countries. So people are living longer. And even though much of it is attributed to modern medicine, it's not. It's lifestyle. It's nutrition. It's the quality of exercise, the ability to manage stress.