The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
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- Pub. Date: September 1994
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 423pp
- ISBN-13: 9780385260954
- ISBN: 0385260954
Synopsis
An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" -- corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world."
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This guide provides a blueprint for establishing a learning organization -- that is, one where people expand their capacity to create results and where new patterns of thinking are nurtured. The text explains how actions create reality and examines the process of building a learning organization. It also details prototypes and coda.
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Peter M. Senge is Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and a founding partner of Innovation Associates in Framingham, Massachusetts, and Toronto, Canada. He has introduced thousands of managers at Ford, Digital, Procter & Gamble, AT&T, Herman Miller, Hanover Insurance, Royal Dutch/Shell, and at other major corporations to the disciplines of the learning organization through the seminars offered by Innovation Associates.
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Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organizationby Anonymous
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June 04, 2005: This book is a definite must read for any person in a higher management position, but the principals that are dealt with can be applied by anyone. The main concept of the book is how we as people grow up dealing with situations piece by piece instead of looking at the big picture. It shows how if you look at an entire system you are more likely to truly solve a problem because you will see interactions between different parts of the system and how one affects another. It also shows how the solution to a problem can sometimes end up being worse than the problem itself. With out using systems thinking, a company will never be able to reach their full potential. The book can be hard to read at times but the information that is taken from it is priceless. If someone was to only pick up the book, and read a chapter or two, vital information can be learned.
Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organizationby Anonymous
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October 06, 2003: After reading the Fifth Discipline, I was inspired to learn more about how to put the practice of Systems Thinking into action within my organization. I found a software product called, Taking the Next Step, which does just that. It picks up where The Fifth Discipline left off. Instead of just reading about systems thinking, Taking the Next Step helped me to actually experience the paradigm, language, method, and technology of Systems Thinking as applied in real-world, case-study examples. You can order the software from the high performance systems website.
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