Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

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

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

All great things have small beginnings.

The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

The key to success isn't just thinking about what we are doing but doing something about what we are thinking.

The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

Become great through the currency of time

Everything about you is how I wanna be

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.