"The MIT systems scientist who made the learning organization a working vocabulary."
Peter Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan, best known as the author of The Fifth Discipline. He trained as an aerospace engineer at Stanford and completed graduate work in social systems modeling and management at MIT. He founded the Society for Organizational Learning and later helped start the Academy for Systems Change.
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The Fifth Discipline summary: Peter Senge’s five disciplines for a learning organization — systems thinking, mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning…
Read Summary →The other four stay decorative until you can see wholes, delays, and leverage.
Hold personal vision against current reality. Do not lower the vision to ease the feeling.
The leader’s new work is to build learning processes, help people see the system, and serve the vision.
"Today’s problems come from yesterday’s “solutions.”"— The Fifth Discipline
"There is no blame."— The Fifth Discipline
The Fifth Discipline summary: Peter Senge’s five disciplines for a learning organization — systems thinking, mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning — and a weekly plan to find leverage.
