The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge
The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge
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The Fifth Discipline
The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Author: Peter M. Senge

Narrator: Peter M. Senge

Abridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

Create your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning with this invaluable guide based on the national bestseller The Fifth Discipline.

“The Fieldbook is a must read for anyone serious about building communities of common purpose, collective action, and continuous learning.”—H. Thomas Johnson, author of Relevance Lost and Relevance Regained
 
Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline revolutionized the practice of management by introducing the theory of learning organizations. Now Dr. Senge moves from the philosophical to the practical by answering the first question all lovers of the learning organization ask: What do they do on Monday morning?

The Fieldbook is an intensely pragmatic guide. It shows how to create an organization of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the lifeblood of every endeavor, and where the tough questions are fearlessly asked. The stories here show that companies, businesses, schools, agencies, and even communities can undo their “learning issues” and achieve superior performance. If ever a work gave meaning to the phrase hands-on, this is it. Senge and his four co-authors cover it all, including:

• Reinventing relationships
• Being loyal to the truth
• Strategies for developing personal mastery
• Building a shared vision
• Systems thinking in an organization
• Designing a dialogue session
• Strategies for team learning
• Organizations as communities
• Designing an organization’s governing ideas
 
The Fieldbook is designed to be referred to in meetings, planning sessions, during reflections, or anytime a conflict or challenge arises. Open it up anywhere and icons and cross-references will lead you from defining the problem to thinking about how to solve it. Mark up the pages, write in the margins, draw, scribble, and daydream—and watch your own guide to mastering the disciplines of organizational learning evolve.

About The Author

Peter Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the chairman of the Society for Organizational Learning, and the author of the bestseller The Fifth Discipline, named by the Harvard Business Review as one of the five "key business books" of the past two decades. He is a recognized pioneer, theorist, and writer in the field of management innovation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jack on September 21, 2010

This book isn't so much a knowledge management book as a tome on management philosophy. Senge has a lot of great ideas and thoughts throughout the book. There is the concept of leaders advocating vs. inquiring. The “what I say vs. what I do” idea of Espoused vs. In-use theories. The heart of the boo......more

Goodreads review by Jurgen on June 05, 2011

Good ideas, but far too much stories and quasi-philosophical fluff. Could have been edited to one third of its size.......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on January 14, 2013

Senge, along with Ackoff and Flood, are some of the great minds in the field of systems thinking and complexity. This book and the full integration and understanding of its content into Leadership and Organisational practice, should, in my opinion, be compulsory. The Learning Organisation is not som......more

Goodreads review by thethousanderclub on June 29, 2018

Years ago I wrote ". . . I have historically struggled a great deal with reading business-oriented books. And why is this? To begin with, most business books feel terribly pretentious, even if the authors aren't in reality that way." The Fifth Disciple was a reminder of what I wrote that. Although n......more

Goodreads review by Abraham on February 01, 2009

Rarely would I use this term to describe anything but the good book itself but here goes..."this book is the bible for any leader/manager". Or maybe a better description would be "the canon", since it is a definitive work but one, as by the theme of the book suggests, that can and should be improved......more


Quotes

“Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation . . . will be something called a learning organization.”Fortune