It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce … - Peter Senge

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.

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

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.