Learning Organization Quotes

#1. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE

Daniel H. Pink

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

Peter Senge

#3. 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

#4. You cannot have a learning organization without shared vision. Without a pull toward some goal which people truly want to achieve, the forces in support of the status quo can be overwhelming.

Peter M. Senge

#5. 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

#6. People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

George Gilder

#7. Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

Colin S. Gray

#8. Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?

Alan G. Robinson

#9. The ISS would not be the incredibly capable orbiting research facility it is today without either Russians or Americans, just as it couldn't have been built without the Canadian arm used in its construction.

Ron Garan

#10. 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

#11. High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

Andy Hargreaves

#12. It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

Quint Studer

#13. Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Edwin Catmull

#14. We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It's not about making learning happen; it's about letting it happen.

Sugata Mitra

#15. Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Indra Nooyi

#16. By forcing a substantial elevation in collective aspirations, stretch goals can shift attention to possible new futures and perhaps spark increased energy in the organization. They thus can prompt exploratory learning through experimentation, innovation, broad search, or playfulness.38 There

Charles Duhigg

#17. What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

John Stott

#18. The [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind.

Steven Pinker

#19. Every time I come across learning items of interest, I'll send distribution voice mail to the appropriate group in the organization.

Fred DeLuca

#20. Learning is limited by an organization's ability to keep its people.

Tom DeMarco

#21. It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

Samuel Chadwick

#22. Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

Tom Johnson

#23. Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning.

Arie De Geus

#24. Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

#25. I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

Missy Elliott

#26. As professionals we have a responsibility of providing a good show for the fans. Getting hits and home runs is what they want to see.

Ichiro Suzuki

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

Don Tapscott

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

Jack Welch

#29. An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

Seth Godin

#30. I want to weep too, not for me but for us all
for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#31. 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

#32. Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.

Sheryl Sandberg

#33. A person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

W. Edwards Deming

#34. Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

Peter Senge

#35. Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.

Christina Baldwin