The Fifth Discipline
The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
About the book
MIT professor Peter M. Senge makes the case for learning organizations, companies that overcome built-in obstacles to learning and where people keep learning how to create the results they want. He sets out five disciplines. Systems thinking is the cornerstone, joined by personal mastery, mental models, team learning and building a shared vision. Senge argues that, over the long run, an organization's only lasting competitive advantage is learning faster than its rivals, and he treats learning disabilities inside firms as a threat to productivity. A revised edition adds more than 100 pages drawn from interviews with practitioners at companies such as Intel, BP, Ford and Unilever, and at groups including Oxfam and the World Bank.
Nara Logics chief executive Jana Eggers valued its focus on teaching and inspiring a company to become a learning organization. Abstract co-founder Josh Brewer said the gap between good and great companies comes down to how much their people learn.
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Josh Brewer (Co-founder/Abstract)
After working at many startups and now running my own company, the one difference I have observed between good and great companies (and products) is how oriented the org is toward learning, The more people in an organization learn, the more value they create for the whole company.
Jana Eggers (CEO/Nara Logics)
My entrepreneurial and leadership inspiration came from a long line of amazing women in my family that always acted independently and gave me the fire and confidence to chose my path, and some fantastic and inspiring men who always expected me to do more.
What I love about 5th Discipline is that it focuses on learning, specifically teaching and inspiring your organization to be a learning org. It is more critical than now than ever before that we be able to learn from customers and the current context of our business for adapting to new challenges. One of my favorite parts of the book is how it teaches teams to work across boundaries -- systems thinking. I've found this builds amazingly cohesive and respectful teams. So this is a business book, but it is really about organizations and how to get them learning and working together for a common purpose.
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