The fifth discipline :
Senge, Peter M.
The fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization / by Peter M. Senge. - New York : Doubleday/Currency, 1994, c1990. - viii, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.
How our 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.
0385260954(pbk)
Organizational effectiveness.
Teams in the workplace.
Organization and Administration.
Efficiency.
Learning.
658.4 / SEN-F 1994 5811
The fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization / by Peter M. Senge. - New York : Doubleday/Currency, 1994, c1990. - viii, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.
How our 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.
0385260954(pbk)
Organizational effectiveness.
Teams in the workplace.
Organization and Administration.
Efficiency.
Learning.
658.4 / SEN-F 1994 5811