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Peter Senge
American
Scientist
Born:
1947
Age
Business
Capital
Human
People
You
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I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game?
Peter Senge
You
Game
Recycling
Profit
Economic
Stuff
New
Economy
Underground
Make
Ball
Ball Game
How
Surface
Up
Junk
Ends
Literally
Interested
Create
CO2
Really
Creates
Whole
Waste
Growth
Bring
Players
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.
Peter Senge
Broken
You
Change
People
Think
Changing
About
Operate
Course
How
Fits
Fix
Model
Conventional
Companies
Company
Need
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.
Peter Senge
Age
Ecological
Industrial
Terms
Human
Sustainable
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
Peter Senge
Democratic
Governments
Nationalistic
Short-Term
Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.
Peter Senge
Today
Sense
Living
Our
Way
Throw
Nobody
Stuff
Likes
Person
Just
Being
Away
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Peter Senge
Nature
Society
Further
Understand
Human
Interdependence
Less
Human Society
Away
There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.
Peter Senge
Food
Think
Kids
Concept
Lot
American
Whatsoever
Store
American Kids
Them
Meaning
Grocery
Grocery Store
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.
Peter Senge
Environmental
Business
Value
Thinking
Way
Consistent
Bad
Some
About
Well
Talking
Well-Being
How
Just
Being
Want
Which
Social
Create
Start
Need
How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.
Peter Senge
Buy
You
People
Value
Do You Know
Know
Well
How
Create
Products
Based
Watch
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.
Peter Senge
You
Will
Thought
Kind
Purpose
Invested
Firm
Return
Always
Go
Any
Taught
Capital
Theory
Lunacy
Program
A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.
Peter Senge
Business
Will
Way
High
Invested
Return
Manage
Capital
Consequence
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
Peter Senge
Nature
Challenge
Face
Our
Machines
Seeing
Institutions
Most
Human
Them
Transition
Universal
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