A review by morgan_blackledge
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
4.0
Author Peter Senge’s classic treatise on the composition of ‘learning organizations’ i.e. organizations that change adaptively in response to problems and based on collaborative insight and shared values.
The five disciplines are:
1. Personal Mastery, entailing honest reflection and evaluation for the purpose of identify individual and organizational shortcomings, strengths, needs and goals.
2. Mental Models, referring to explicit understanding of our otherwise implicit personal and organizational assumptions, biases, schemata, point of view, etc.
3. Shared Vision, referring to the practice of clear definition and (most importantly) enactment of guiding principles and aspirations.
4. Team Learning, the practice of collaborative learning and supportive group inquiry.
5. Systems Thinking, the powerful holistic approach to viewing organizational behavior.
The topic of Systems Thinking is why I picked up this book in the first place. But I was pleasantly surprised by the clarity and usefulness of the other material.
I loved the book, and immediately began reading the sequel; the Fifth Discipline Field Guide.
Why only 4 stars ( ?
The five disciplines are:
1. Personal Mastery, entailing honest reflection and evaluation for the purpose of identify individual and organizational shortcomings, strengths, needs and goals.
2. Mental Models, referring to explicit understanding of our otherwise implicit personal and organizational assumptions, biases, schemata, point of view, etc.
3. Shared Vision, referring to the practice of clear definition and (most importantly) enactment of guiding principles and aspirations.
4. Team Learning, the practice of collaborative learning and supportive group inquiry.
5. Systems Thinking, the powerful holistic approach to viewing organizational behavior.
The topic of Systems Thinking is why I picked up this book in the first place. But I was pleasantly surprised by the clarity and usefulness of the other material.
I loved the book, and immediately began reading the sequel; the Fifth Discipline Field Guide.
Why only 4 stars ( ?