Learning Organization Quotes:

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.

- Peter Senge

source: Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.12, Random House

topic: Thinking, Organization, People, Learning Organization, Continually Learning

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

- Jack Welch

source: "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Managing Change, Inspiring Business

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.

- Peter Senge

source: "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

topic: Teacher, Organization, People, Stewards, Learning Organization

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

- Peter Senge

source: "The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge (p. 14), en.wikiquote.org. 1990.

topic: Organization, Expanding, Capacity, Learning Organization

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

- Peter Senge

source: Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.19, Random House

topic: Teaching, Learning, Able, Learning Organization, Process Of Life

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 Senge

topic: Commitment, Role Models, Inspire, Nudge, Learning Organization

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

- Don Tapscott

source: Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.252, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Successful, Organization, Needs, Knowledge And Information, Learning Organization

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."

- Walter Wriston

topic: Army, Organization, Important, Learning Organization

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.

- Reuven Feuerstein

topic: Learning, Self, Organization, Learning Organization, Modifying

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

- Peter Senge

source: Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.159, Random House

topic: Reality, People, Vision, Learning Organization

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

- Peter Senge

topic: Mistake, Expectations, Frustrated, Learning Organization

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

- Peter Senge

topic: Vision, Pursuit, Needed, Learning Organization

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 Senge

topic: Organization, Profound, Humanity, Really Deep, Learning Organization

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 Senge

topic: Appreciation, Focus, Snapshots, Learning Organization, Systems Thinking

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.

- Tom Peters

topic: Organization, Ideas, Arrogance, Copycats, Learning Organization

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

- Peter Senge

topic: Reality, Circles, Lines, Straight Lines, Learning Organization

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.

- Peter Senge

topic: Thinking, Practice, Organization, Learning Organization

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

- Peter Senge

topic: Thinking, Circles, Lines, Straight Lines, Learning Organization

In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.

- Robert Fritz

topic: Dream, Absence, Pettiness, Learning Organization

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.'

- Laozi

topic: Leadership, People, Confusion, Learning Organization, Good Leader