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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization Audio CD – Audiobook, January 5, 1999

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Peter Senge's groundbreaking ideas on building organizations have made him a household name amongst corporate managers. His theories help businesses to clarify their goals, to defy the odds, to more clearly understand threats, and to recognize new opportunities. He introduces managers to a new source of competitive advantage, and offers a marvelously empowering approach to work.

Mastery of Senge's five disciplines enables managers to overcome their obstacles to growth and creates brave new futures for them and their companies. The five disciplines are drawn from science, spiritual wisdom, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought, and Senge's own work with top corporations that employ his methods. Listening to I> The Fifth Discipline provides a searching personal experience and a dramatic professional shift of mind.

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"Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization." -- Fortune Magazine.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Audio (January 5, 1999)
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553456342
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553456349
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.09 x 1.11 x 5.95 inches

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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..

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2023

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Book was in good condition. What can I say, it was a textbook designated by the instructor.

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Jill V

Senge is a literal genius. However he really needs a better editor.

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This guy is the king of leadership theory. Holy cow. And kudos for being able to write over 500 pages on such an abstract topic. You, sir, definitely have me beat in the IQ department.

That said, this book should have been about 75 pages shorter. The amount of extraneous words Senge shoves into interminably long sentences (I’m taking like three lines of small text without a period) is mind blowing, but also mind FRYING. OH MY GOD INSERT MORE PERIODS, PETE. “Ands” and commas get exhausting after 300 pages of non abstract theory, never mind abstract theory. I’m only in my second leadership course and I feel like I’ve been clobbered over the head with info here-I just wish Smarty Senge could have been more concise. “To” is better than “in order to.” In stead of listing things 1-5 and then detailing them out in summary, just do the summary and number each item as it is covered. And I don’t need a review of the chapter I JUST READ to start the NEXT CHAPTER. I mean I’m not nearly as smart as the author but… I can recall what a read a page ago. It boggles me that this is the second edition yet it is still written with such insufferable (at times) grandiloquence.
Let’s do some systems thinking exercises around brevity, Pete. I’ll facilitate. Please?

Writing style and profuseness aside, however, I learned a crap ton from this book. I especially resonated with the “shifting the burden” principle and as a future other kind of principal I vow to seek more long term, lasting solutions than short term symptomatic ones. I appreciate all the knowledge in this book and recommend it to anyone interested in taking part in any sort of leadership role.

I also recommend either a stiff drink or screaming into a pillow after emerging from the abstract jungle of words you must cut through to lean all Peter wants to teach you.
It’s worth it though.

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A good read and reminder of the necessity of leading and developing a learning organization… Great update to a classic.

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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization written by Peter Senge in 1990 has some great viewpoints for upper and middle managers to learn from. The book may seem to apply its learning philosophy for large size companies but is valid for a company of any size. Senge’s views of the learning organization are broken down into five disciplines; they are: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, building shared vision, and systems thinking.

In chapter 2, Senge explains the seven deficiencies of a learning organization which he calls the “seven learning disabilities”. I don’t know why but the “parable of the boiling frog” stands out in my mind the most; that of letting threats gradually sneak up on or your system. Or being complacency or too comfortable where you can’t react in time because it’s too late. Senge does a good job of giving the reader a visual with his illustrations and examples. On page 89 he mentions of how the temperature controls adjustments can overshoot the target and exceed the desired limits. A simple time delay between adjustments can help stabilize the process from overshooting the opposite limits. I’ve seen this on systems that monitor the relative humidity when storms blow in and change the dew point. Also, when my spouse comes home from work and adjusts the thermostat as low as it can go thinking the A/C unit will cool down faster. By the time I get home the house is freezing…. Senge’s point is that sometimes delays to a process are sometimes necessary while other delays, like in the “beer game” orders, may be a burden and create an issue.

The beer game was in chapter 3 is a great example of how material flows from the brewery, through the distributor, and then to the retailer for sale to the consumers. The process is a little redundant and maybe a little long winded but is important for the readers or managers to understand how easily things can go wrong. My initial thought was the book was written in 1990 and now that we have the internet with B2B software, it could resolve the communication breakdown between the three parties and have material flow closer to JIT process. This would help the reaction time as sales increase or decrease. Senge references the beer game throughout his book and mentions the game was first developed in the 1960’s as a demonstration at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

The “7 Disabilities” of an organization relate to the “11 Laws of an Organization” in chapter 4. The seven disabilities can be conquered by the disciplines of the eleven laws of an organization.

What I thought reading through the beer game was somewhat difficult but was nothing compared to the agonizing chapters of 6 and 7. Chapter 8 was refreshing that deals with “Personal Mastery”. I guess the part I enjoyed was the “Personal Vision” where I can evaluate my own visions and not just my goals. It clarifies the vision and what it takes to achieve being a “personal mastery”. It mentions to fill in the gap between my vision and reality; the “gap” is the energy of making my vision a reality.

One thing Senge mentions is that “organizations learn only through individuals who learn. Individual learning does not guarantee organizational learning. But without it no organizational learning occurs”. Leadership, vision, and disciplines all play a part in creating a learning organization.

These are just some of my notes that I made for myself and almost gave the book only three stars for the long drawn out sections. Other than that it is a good book and one to highlight and tag notes inside and keep on your shelf. That is just my take on it - hope my notes help.

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Read first edition. This one adds mostly filler, and heavy depth.

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Great book. Surely one of the best mgt books. It seems repetitive in parts. Maybe its the second edition doing it doing it doing it.

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El libro venía dañado.

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Lastimosamente el libro no venía en un buen estado.

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Stormy F

Great read for school administrators

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This book is a great read for school administrators. The book pushed some opinions, but it was an overall good resource.

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On time delivery

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Excellent book

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Management speak

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I now can't remember why I bought this book. Much less remember anything from inside it.

Make of that what you will.

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Ana

Very good stuff

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The book is in good shape and was delivered on time.
It is a very insightful book about the problems in implementing learning organizations, driving us into the causes and consequent needs of behaviour change.

Mr. Andrew Simpson

Perfect!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2012

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I bought this book using the Kindle app on my i-pad and was delighted at how easy and quick it was to do so.

AnZo

The writing is pretty complex. If you are interested in the subject ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 21, 2017

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The writing is pretty complex. If you are interested in the subject and you want to dig deeper is a must read.

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tsagars

Well worth a look for Systems Thinking

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Most accessible book I've read on Systems Thinking so far. Good examples and narratives, generally pretty OK to relate to. Can be a little evangelical and idealistic in places but then most books of this type tend to be. The fundamentals are there though so it is certainly worth a read for anyone wanting to know more about Systems Thinking.

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