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The Fifth Discipline

The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

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The Fifth Discipline

By: Peter M. Senge
Narrated by: Peter M. Senge
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 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.©1994 Peter M. Senge; (P)1994 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House Inc., All Rights Reserved Business Communication Career Success Management Management & Leadership Marketing Marketing & Sales Organisational Behaviour Workplace & Organisational Behaviour Business Leadership Inspiring Career Public Relation Organisational Leadership Arts Management

Critic Reviews

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

“One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.”—Harvard Business Review

“Senge’s book has achieved the status of a management classic.”—Boston Globe

“The job of management in education, industry, and government should be the optimization of a system . . . Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline, from which I have learned much, is a good place to begin.”—Dr. W. Edwards Deming, pioneer of the Total Quality Management movement
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Good ideas, but not easy to implement, will need a strong champion with vision and long view, but could revolutionize a business.

Good idea, hard to implement

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I loved this book. It is unfortunately still challenging in the business domain to find people who think systemically, believe in personal mastery and apply design thinking practices. I really enjoyed hearing Peter speak and laugh. Well worth the read especially of you are someone working with organisations in a consultative capacity.

Timeless recommendations

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Extremely ready listen, with a composition that's truly on point. The case studies, whilst a little dated now in 2020, are still so very relevant to today's typicall business thinking models (or lack thereof!)

Fabulous short insight into the five disciplines

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Some interesting lessons on creating dialogue and learning organisations. Highlights the value of learning while doing, learning within the organisation, verses what is learnt in a school.

When I got to the end, I went back to the beginning and listened a 2nd time.

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Excellent book, very worthwhile, a must read for any leader, facilitator or manager in any organisation.

Superb!

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