The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
 

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

by Peter M. Senge

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... (read more)

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Overview: Amazon Reviews

The Fifth Discipline
  • Rated 4 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-11-02
The seller said that it took 21 days to delivry to Bangkok, Thailand ,but I got my book less than 21 days wow. Thanks.
Excellent!
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-09-12
I can write pages about how good this book is, but why when I can summarize it in one word. Excellent!

If you want to learn about leadership and system thinking, then you owe it to yourself to read and own this book. It can not get any better than this.
Don't Become Road Kill!
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-06-14
The Fifth Discipline is an excellent book exploring ways for corporations to improve long-term competitiveness by developing flexible learning methods and empowering employees. This work is well researched with clear useable methodologies.

Written almost two decades ago, many corporations are still striving to become "learning organizations" today. As to be expected, successes in this endeavor vary widely. The need for leaning organizations is more important than ever as technology and society change at a breakneck pace.

Many of the concepts and ideas in this book are highly applicable today. Corporations with managers willing to get out of their collective boxes and apply systems thinking to become true learning organizations will have the best opportunity to survive and prosper. Corporations unwilling (or unable) to become learning organizations may become road kill on the super highway.

The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide to: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
Eloquent science
  • Rated 3 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-02-16
This is a very eloquently written book. A top level manager will find there are many helpful ideas, such as the importance of teaching in management. One must help associates in an organization to greater understanding of the big picture.

Nonetheless, this role has usually been performed by a leader via storytelling, and visioning, rather than the techniques which Peter Senge emphasizes. The result of Senge's techniques are a more mechanical learning which is better suited to engineering inanimate systems rather than people. In real life, people cannot be engineered and re-engineered, no matter how many management gurus profess this faith.

Seminal Work
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2007-11-01
The Fifth Discipline is a seminal book by the famous author Peter M. Senge. The book teaches the concept of the learning organization namely that the successful organization must continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in the environment effectively and therefore to grow and prosper. I have read the book a number of times and keep on referring to it as is filled with a lot useful knowledge and wisdom. System thinking and learning is critical to organisational growth and development in the present highly dynamic operating environment.

According to Peter Senge, "real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning"--powerful advice indeed from a real learning guru.

I recommend this book for individuals interested in understanding the nature of how organizations develop, how behaviours are formed, and how organizations achieve growth and augment their capabilities. You will learn how to improve the way your organization or department functions, how to review and improve systems and how to develop shared visions, create long term goals among other critical insights.
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