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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 4439
Publication Date: 2006-03-21
Release Date: 2006-03-21
Publisher: Broadway Business
ISBN: 0385517254
Type: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 445
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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 demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.
In The Fifth Discipline, Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning “disabilities” that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations—ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire.
The updated and revised Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book’s inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders’ New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future.
Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will:
• Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them
• Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity
• Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets
• Teach you to see the forest and the trees
• End the struggle between work and personal time
Average Rating: 
Review: 2009-09-08
Not as good as the hype
The Fifth Discipline is a reasonably good book but very over-hyped. It starts off with a very interesting example of systems thinking (the well-known 'Beer Game'), but then peters out fast in terms of interesting and helpful examples. The book does provide a reasonable list of factors that will facilitate learning, though it is very light on practical example and application. Some material (such as avoiding groupthink and improving team communication and organizational citizenship behavior) has been extensively discussed elsewhere, and there are much better sources for this (including Janis's original Groupthink work and the subsequent research on that topic, and William Starbuck's books on learning and decision errors). The Fifth Discipline did little to add to the existing material on those topics. Perhaps the The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (coauthored by Art Kleiner - editor of the excellent magazine "Strategy+Business") is more practical and helpful to organizations. This is a reasonably good book but was very light in practical examples and recommendations. I was very disappointed in this book after reading it.
Review: 2009-08-24
Reviewing the Fifth Discipline by Nick
I received the book by mail and in a very good shape.
I found the book easy to be read and the subject can help who wants to improve in business administration constantly.
Review: 2009-07-16
Interesting....
This was a good book if you are interested in the topic. Had to read some of it for school. Most of the time though I just thought it was too detailed, but I guess that is why it is a school book to give my brain a workout.
Review: 2009-07-03
Fluff
Please do yourself a favor and read an except of the book on Amazon. Read the first page. I found the whole book to be like the first page - lots of words yet saying very little. As another reviewer said, the whole book could be condensed down to less than 50 pages. I think down to less than 1 page.
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