Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

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

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.

All great things have small beginnings.

The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

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

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.

The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

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?

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Excuses

Without fools there would be no wisdom.

In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

All I ever had before you was nightmares. But now I dream. Because of you.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Worship is about God relationship. I need to remember to keep it that simple.

Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.