Words from Chapter 14 of Senge's "The Fifth Discipline"

Tragedy of the Commons: The logic of local decision making leads inexorably to collective disaster.

Commons: a resource shared  among a group of people.  (Eg: the Church).

Trends and forces: Items that affect the commons.

Forgiveness: Real Forgiveness is the mending of the relationships that may have been hurt by the mistake. "Making a mistake is punishment enough." CEO John Rollwagen

Senge, Peter M.  The Fifth Discipline (New York; DoubleDay Currency, 1990) 287-301.

Words from Chapter 12 of Senge's "The Fifth Discipline"

An Anarchist Archetype Hero

Knife's Edge: 

"The mind keeps wanting to move away form suspending assumptions to adaption non-negotiable and rigid opinions which we then feel compelled to defend."244

Symptomatic Solution:

Defensive routines that eliminate the learning gap by reducing the perceived need for learning. pg 253

Fragmentation: 

the tendency of thought to break things apart.  pg 266

Language for Complexity:  

collective language that is designed to make it easier to discuss complex issues objectively and dispassionately. pg 268

Tomorrow-Vocabulary from  Chapter 13  Openness- answering the question: How can the politics and game playing that dominate traditional organizations be transcended? 

Senge, Peter M.  The Fifth Discipline (New York; DoubleDay Currency, 1990) 234-269.