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Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, focusing our energies, developing patience, and seeing reality objectively. As such, it is an essential cornerstone of the learning organization—the learning organization’s spiritual foundation. An organization’s commitment to and capacity for learning can be no greater than that of its members. The roots of this discipline lie in both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, and in secular traditions as well.

— The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge

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  1. On building learning organizations Personal mastery: Continually clarifying and refining our personal visions, and seeing reality objectively. Building shared vision: The capacity to translate individual visions into collective visions that galvanize a group of people based on what they’ll really like to create together. Mental models: Learning to unearth our own personal pictures of the world, to bring them to the surface so that we see how they impact our actions. Team learning: Spending time together to suspend assumptions and come up with new ideas. Systems thinking: What causes patterns of behavior? It is a framework for seeing the whole picture instead of […]
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  3. If you have a strong vision, you are the catalyst for the change. You are the spark for the fire. And hopefully at this point, people are bought into the vision, because then it’s bigger than you. A good vision takes off on its own, and is bigger than your own ego, bigger than your own fear. — Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner Source: Amazon Kindle […]
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  5. When studying events, we look at them through analytical, logical lenses. We break them down into small, understandable chunks, and we fish for scapegoats while looking for cause-and-effect relationships. Is the economy going south? It must be the result of the poor decisions of a politician. Is the newspaper arriving late? That lazy mailman. For sure, he stopped to chat with the neighbor. Is your wife cold and distant lately? It must be her job. We seek linear, immediate, sensible explanations for problems surrounding us. But by doing so, we run the risk of seeing issues as being inflicted […]

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