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In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

- Peter Senge
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If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

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In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.