Peter Senge

Quotes

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

• “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing the 'structures' that underlie complex situations, and for discerning high from low leverage change. That is, by seeing wholes we learn how to foster health.”

• “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 only cynicism.”