Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

History is the gradual instant

Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

Senegal needs a renaissance.