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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Fifth Discipline: The Art And Practice Of The Learning Organizationby Peter M Senge
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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." Review:"Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization." — Fortune Magazine. Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index. Table of ContentsHow 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. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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