Consequently, awakened workers take risks in order to learn, and they understand how to seek enduring solutions to problems instead of quick fixes. Lifelong commitment to high quality work can result when teams work together to capitalize on the synergy of the continuous group learning for optimal performance...

Personal mastery means working on developing one's vision, one's abilities, and one's focus of energy on a personal level. It is a divine inner drive to practice mastery, to be the best that one can be...

It is set as a process where you can’t arrive at your destination. In order to achieve a high level of personal mastery you have to continually clarify your personal vision, develop patience, look at the reality in an objective way and focus your energy...

If you are one of these lucky people, then you have experienced a learning organization--a team that learned how to produce extraordinary results! At the core of a learning organization are five lifelong learning disciplines: • Personal Mastery--learning to expand our personal capacity to create the results we most desire • Mental Models--recognizing how our internal images of the world shape our actions and decisions • Shared Vision--building a sense of group commitment to shared visions of the future and the principles and procedures for getting there • Team Learning--developing conversational and group thinking skills so that teams of people can develop intelligence and abilities greater than the sum of individual members' talents • Systems Thinking--recognizing and understanding the forces and interrelationships that shape the behavior of systems, and learning how to change systems more effectively The ability to learn faster than your competitors...