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The fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization / Peter M. Senge

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Random House Business, [2006]Edition: Rev and updated, edDescription: xvi, 445 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781905211203
  • 9781905211203
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Introduction to revised edition -- Part I: How our actions create our reality...and how we can change it -- "Give me a lever long enough...and single handed I can move the world" -- Does your organization have a learning disability? -- Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- Part II: The fifth discipline: the cornerstone of the learning organization -- The laws of the fifth discipline -- A shift of mind -- Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- Self-limiting or self-sustaining growth -- Part III: The core disciplines: building the learning organization -- Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning -- Part IV: Reflections from practice -- Foundations -- Impetus -- Strategies -- The leader's new work -- Systems citizens -- Frontiers -- Part V: Coda -- The indivisible whole
Summary: 'The Fifth Discipline' draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought & Senge's work with leading companies. Reading it provides a searching personal experience & a dramatic professional shift of mind. This edition contains more than 100 pages of new material.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction to revised edition -- Part I: How our actions create our reality...and how we can change it -- "Give me a lever long enough...and single handed I can move the world" -- Does your organization have a learning disability? -- Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- Part II: The fifth discipline: the cornerstone of the learning organization -- The laws of the fifth discipline -- A shift of mind -- Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- Self-limiting or self-sustaining growth -- Part III: The core disciplines: building the learning organization -- Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning -- Part IV: Reflections from practice -- Foundations -- Impetus -- Strategies -- The leader's new work -- Systems citizens -- Frontiers -- Part V: Coda -- The indivisible whole

'The Fifth Discipline' draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought & Senge's work with leading companies. Reading it provides a searching personal experience & a dramatic professional shift of mind. This edition contains more than 100 pages of new material.

Previous ed.: London : Currency Doubleday, 1990

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