Explain the Following Questions:

1. What essential characteristics exist in a proper understanding of "personal mastery," so that as an individual achieves greater progress in this discipline, they become less self-centered, less narcissistic, and less prone to work in a silo described as "I am my position"? With this in mind, how does progress in personal mastery empower one to become more effective in interdependent relations, e.g., in Covey's book seven habits of highly effective people, habits 4-6?

2. How is it that "personal mastery," properly understood, drives us towards "systems thinking" and toward seeing our connectedness with larger systems around us, even our ultimate connectedness to the world around us? 

3. Scholtes says that the force of a shared vision gives common meaning, purpose, direction, and focus to work. How does this integrate with Senge's 2nd, 3rd, and 4th disciplines of the learning organization? How does it integrate with Covey's habits 4, 5, and 6?)

4. Why do you think so many organizations are full of self-protected silos, devoid of the "joy of team," and prone to waste huge amounts of time and energy in organizational conflicts?