The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Peter M. Senge





Format: Hardcover, 464pp.
ISBN: 9780385517829
Publisher: Currency Doubleday Books
Pub. Date: March 21, 2006

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From The Publisher:

Completely Updated and Revised

This revised edition of Peter Senge’s bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices. In The Fifth Discipline, Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning “disabilities” that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations—ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire.

The updated and revised Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book’s inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders’ New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future.

Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will:

• Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them
• Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity
• Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets
• Teach you to see the forest and the trees
• End the struggle between work and personal time

About the Author

Peter M. Senge is the founding chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning and a senior lecturer at MIT. He is the co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, and Schools That Learn (part of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series) and has lectured extensively throughout the world. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Table of Contents

	Introduction to the Revised Edition	xi
	PART I   HOW OUR ACTIONS CREATE OUR REALITY... AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT
1	"Give Me a Lever Long Enough . . . and Single-Handed I Can Move the World"	3
2	Does Your Organization Have a Learning Disability?	17
3	Prisoners of the System, or Prisoners of Our Own Thinking?	27
	PART II   THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
4	The Laws of the Fifth Discipline	57
5	A Shift of Mind	68
6	Nature's Templates: Identifying the Patterns That Control Events	92
7	Self-Limiting or Self-Sustaining Growth	113
	PART III   THE CORE DISCIPLINES: BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
8	Personal Mastery	139
9	Mental Models	163
10	Shared Vision	191
11	Team Learning	216
	PART IV   REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE
12	Foundations	258
13	Impetus	272
14	Strategies	283
15	The Leader's New Work	317
16	Systems Citizens	341
17	Frontiers	363
	PART V   CODA
19	The Indivisible Whole	379
	Appendix l: The Learning Disciplines	383
	Appendix 2: Systems Archetypes	389
	Appendix 3: The U Process	401
	Notes	405
	Acknowledgments	425
	Acknowledgments for Revised Edition	429
	Index	431

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