An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.
We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us.
The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.
The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.