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Fear of Learning

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Peter Senge wrote in his groundbreaking book, The Fifth Discipline , “When we see that to learn we must be willing to look foolish, to let another teach us, learning doesn’t always look so good anymore…Only with the support and fellowship of another can we face the dangers of learning meaningful things.”.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone; instead, try a long-term relationship based on established loyalty and trust. He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people.

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