Best Learning Organization Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Many organizations are now trying to walk under the banner of The Learning Organization, realizing that knowledge is our most important product ... But the only place that I've seen it is in the Army. As one colonel said, "We realized a while ago that it's better to learn than be dead."”

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Author:Walter Wriston

“Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”

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Author:Laozi

“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.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“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.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines”

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Author:Peter Senge

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

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Author:Peter Senge

“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.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.”

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Book:The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

“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.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“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.”

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Book:The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

“In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.”

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Author:Robert Fritz

“New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.”

“To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.”

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Book:The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

Source: The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

“The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly”

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Book:The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition

“A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.”

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Author:Reuven Feuerstein