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The Fifth Discipline: The Art And Practice Of The Learning Organization

by Peter M Senge

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ISBN13: 9780385260947
ISBN10: 0385260946
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An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" — corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world."

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.
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Table of Contents

How 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? — 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 — The principle of leverage — The art of seeing the forest and the trees — The core disciplines: building the learning organization. Personal mastery — Mental models — Shared vision — Team learning — Prototypes. Openness — Localness — A manager's time — Ending the war between work and family — Microworlds: the technology of the learning organization — The leader's new work — Coda. A sixth discipline? — Rewriting the code — The indivisible whole — Appendix 1: The learning disciplines — Appendix 2: Systems archetypes.
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"The Fifth Discipline" lays out a holistic view of corporations/organizations that fundementally recognizes the important role of meaning and connection in the work world. The book provides brilliant perspectives from which to view business problems, change goals, and the meaningful role that work and leadership can play in individuals' lives. It is one of the top 5 books I've read that has had a deep and lasting impact on how I think and examine the world and life around me.
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ISBN:
9780385260947
Subtitle:
(the art and practice of the learning organization )
Author:
Senge, Peter M.
Publisher:
Doubleday/Currency
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Leadership
Subject:
Management
Subject:
Teams in the workplace
Subject:
Learning
Subject:
Organizational effectiveness
Subject:
Organizational learning
Subject:
Organization and administration
Subject:
Efficiency.
Subject:
Management - General
Subject:
Grupos de trabajo
Subject:
Educational Environment
Subject:
School Organization
Copyright:
1990
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
124
Publication Date:
c1990
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
viii, 424 p.
Dimensions:
9.53x6.59x1.44 in. 1.85 lbs.
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