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Senge, P. M. 1990. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York, NY: Doubleday.
Outline by James R. Martin |
Part I. How Our Actions Create Our Reality and How We can Change it.
Chapter 1. Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world.
Breaking problems into parts causes a hidden, enormous price. We can not see the consequences of our actions and we loose our intrinsic sense of connection to a larger whole.
Five disciplines of the learning organization:
Systems Thinking - this is the Fifth discipline. Systems thinking includes a conceptual framework, a body of knowledge and tools to make the full patterns clearer.
Personal Mastery -
Mental models -
Building a shared vision -
Team learning -
A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.
Chapter 2. Does your organization have a learning disability?
Seven learning disabilities:
I am my position -
The enemy is out there -
The illusion of taking charge -
The fixation on events -
The parable of the boiled frog -
The delusion of learning from experience -
The myth of the management team -
Chapter 3. Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking.
See The Beer Game summary.
Part II. The Fifth Discipline: The Cornerstone of the Learning Organization
Chapter 4. The Laws of the Fifth Discipline.
Chapter 5. A Shift of Mind
Chapter 6. Nature's Templates: Identifying the patterns that control events.
Chapter 7. The principle of leverage.
Chapter 8. The art of seeing the forest and the trees.
Part III. The Core Disciplines: Building the Learning Organization
Chapter 9. Personal Mastery
Chapter 10. Mental Models
Chapter 11. Shared Vision
Chapter 12. Team Learning
Part IV.
Chapter 13. Openness
Chapter 14. Localness
Chapter 15. A manager's Time
Chapter 16. Ending the War between Work and Family
Chapter 17. Microworlds: the Technology of the Learning Organization
Chapter 18. The Leader's New Work
Part V. CODA
Chapter 19. A Sixth Discipline?
Chapter 20. Rewriting the Code
Chapter 21. The Indivisible Whole
Appendix 1: The Learning Disciplines
Appendix 2: Systems Archetypes
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Other Books:
Senge, P. M. 2008. The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organisations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World. Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd.
Senge, P. M., A. Kleiner, C. Roberts, G. Roth, R. Ross and B. Smith. 1999. The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations. Doubleday.
Senge, P. M., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski and B. S. Flowers. 2004. Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. Sol.
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