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“alignment is the necessary condition before empowering the individual will empower the whole team. Empowering the individual when there is a relatively low level of alignment worsens the chaos and makes managing the team even more difficult:”
― Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

“Without effective local line leaders, new ideas—no matter how compelling—do not get translated into action, and the intentions behind change initiatives from the top can easily be thwarted. Network”
― Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

“Fragmentation, or making learning an “add-on” to people’s regular work, has probably limited more organizational learning initiatives than any other factor.”
― Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

“In a heated debate, the novice at working with mental models will have to make an effort to identify the assumptions he is making and why. Often the beginner’s efforts in a discipline are characterized by time displacement: only after the debate, does one see one’s assumptions clearly and distinguish them from the “data” and reasoning upon which they are based.”
― Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization