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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

“Nature (and that includes us) is not made up of parts within wholes. It is made up of wholes within wholes. All boundaries, national boundaries included, are fundamentally arbitrary. We invent them and then, ironically, we find ourselves trapped within them. But”
― Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

“Individual learning, at some level, is irrelevant for organizational learning. Individuals learn all the time and yet there is no organizational learning. But if teams learn, they become a microcosm for learning throughout the organization. Insights gained are put into action. Skills developed can propagate to other individuals and to other teams (although there is no guarantee that they will propagate). The team’s accomplishments can set the tone and establish a standard for learning together for the larger organization. Within”
― Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

“we want real teams, not just groups of people who happen to work together. Harvard”
― Em Campbell-Pretty, Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture