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Fifth Discipline : The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

ISBN: 9780385517256 | 0385517254

Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Crown Business
Pub. Date: 3/21/2006

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Completely Updated and Revised This revised edition of Peter Senge's bestselling classic, "The Fifth Discipline," is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book's ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in "The Fifth Discipline," many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into p... MOREeople's ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices. In "The Fifth Discipline," Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations--ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire. The updated and revised Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book's inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders' New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future. Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will: - Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters tothem - Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity - Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets - Teach you to see the forest "and" the trees - End the struggle between work and personal time

The Harvard Business Review praised THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE as one of the seminal business books of the twentieth century, and Fortune magazine called Peter Senge's concept of organizations that concentrate on eliminating embedded learning disabilities the "organization form of the 90s." In the post-Enron world, the idea of building a healthy and vibrant corporate culture is more relevant than ever. With more than one hundred pages of new material, TTHE FIFTH DISCIPLINE provides an essential blueprint for corporations in the twenty-first century. Drawing on science, spiritual wisdom, psychology, and the cutting edge of management thought, Senge presents the theories and practices that have helped companies like Intel, Nike, Procter & Gamble, and Coopers and Lybrand achieve desired goals by nurturing patterns of thinking within their organizations and creating a workplace where people are continually learning together. In a clear, engaging style, THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE explains how to: Reignite the spark of genuine learning, driven by people who focus on what truly matters to them Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity Free individuals from confining assumptions and mindsets Learn to see both the forest and the trees for better decision making The only sustainable source of competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than its competitors. THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE shows the way. Reading it is an eye-opening experience on every level, both personally and professionally.

Presenting an empowering approach to work, this MIT professor's pathbreaking book is about 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.

Introduction to Revised Edition

PART I HOW OUR ACTIONS CREATE OUR REALITY...AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT

1 "Give Me a Lever Long Enough...and Single-Handed I Can Move the World"

(14)

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2 Does Your Organization Have a Learning Disability?

(10)

3 Prisoners of the System, or Prisoners of Our Own Thinking?

(30)

PART II THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION

4 The Laws of the Fifth Discipline

(11)

5 A Shift of Mind

(24)

6 Nature's Templates: Identifying the Patterns That Control Events

(21)

7 Self-Limiting or Self-Sustaining Growth

113

(16)

PART III THE CORE DISCIPLINES: BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION

8 Personal Mastery

129

(34)

9 Mental Models

163

(28)

10 Shared Vision

191

(25)

11 Team Learning

216

(42)

PART IV REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE

12 Foundations

258

(14)

13 Impetus

272

(11)

14 Strategies

283

(34)

15 The Leader's New Work

317

(24)

16 Systems Citizens

341

(22)

17 Frontiers

363

(16)

PART V CODA

18 The Indivisible Whole

379

(4)

Appendix 1: The Learning Disciplines

383

(6)

Appendix 2: Systems Archetypes

389

(12)

Appendix 3: The U Process

401

(4)

Notes

405

(20)

Acknowledgments

425

(4)

Acknowledgments for Revised Edition

429

(2)

Index

431

PETER M. SENGE is the founding chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning and a senior lecturer at MIT. He is the co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, and Schools That Learn (part of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series) and has lectured extensively throughout the world. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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