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"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... read more
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“real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human”
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“Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do”
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“Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it”
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Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.
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True proactiveness comes from seeing how we contribute to our own problems. It is a product of our way of thinking, not our emotional state.
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Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, a body of knowledge and tools that has been developed over the past fifty years, to make the full patterns clearer, and to help us see how to change them effectively.
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It’s just not possible any longer to figure it out from the top, and have everyone else following the orders of the “grand strategist.” The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people’s commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.
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The five disciplines represent approaches (theories and methods) for developing three core learning capabilities: fostering aspiration, developing reflective conversation, and understanding complexity.
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systems thinking is the fifth discipline. It is the discipline that integrates the disciplines, fusing them into a coherent body of theory and practice. It keeps them from being separate gimmicks or the latest organization change fads. Without a systemic orientation, there is no motivation to look at how the disciplines interrelate. By enhancing each of the other disciplines, it continually reminds us that the whole can exceed the sum of its parts.
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we learn best from experience but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions.
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The discipline of personal mastery starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us, of living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.
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When people in organizations focus only on their position, they have little sense of responsibility for the results produced when all positions interact. Moreover, when results are disappointing, it can be very difficult to know why. All you can do is assume that “someone screwed up.”
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Mental Models. Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures or images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.
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From a very early age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter M. Senge (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 658.4
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