The Fifth Discipline: The Art And Practice Of The Learning Organization (second Edition)

By (author) Peter M Senge; By (author) Senge, Peter M; Foreword by Edmondson Amy
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Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.
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A million-copy bestseller, The Fifth Discipline reveals how systems thinking can transform the culture of any organisation.

We cannot afford to view organisations as mechanical structures where each worker is just a cog in a machine. On an individual level, this thinking snuffs out our curiosity, and on an organisational level, it inhibits us from recognising the true value of our co-workers. How do we instead create organisations that are living, breathing and dynamic?

In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge introduces the principles every organisation needs to expand its creative capacity, nurture new patterns of thinking and learn collaboratively – all to make the whole organisation more effective than the sum of its parts. Mastering the disciplines will:

- Reignite the spark of learning, driven by people focused on what truly matters to them
- Transform mere teamwork into a culture of collective creativity, or ‘macro-creativity’
- Liberate team members from confining assumptions and mindsets

Drawing on science, spiritual values, psychology and case studies from leading companies like Apple, Harley-Davidson and Shell, this bestselling business classic is the definitive guide to growth, personal development and management coaching.

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The book that put “learning organisations” into the lexicon of modern management . . . An idiosyncratic blend of psychology, systems dynamics and Zen-inspired philosophy.
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Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the future will be something called a learning organization.
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One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.
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Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principals, offers some basic tools for practicing it, and shows what it''s like to operate under this system. The book''s concepts remain stimulating and relevant as ever.
Biographical note:
Peter M Senge (Author)
Dr Peter Senge is the founding chairperson of the Society for Organisational Learning and a senior lecturer at MIT. He has lectured extensively across the world, and The Journal of Business Strategy named him as one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years.

Amy Edmondson (Foreword By)
Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Renowned for her world-leading research into the concept of psychological safety, Edmondson has been named by Thinkers50 as the most influential management thinker in the world. Her work has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Psychology Today and Harvard Business Review, and been drawn upon by companies including Google and Microsoft. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


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In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your organisation''s ability to learn faster than its competitors.