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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (平装)
by Peter M. Senge
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Learning organization, Change management, Corporate transformation |
| Market price: ¥ 258.00
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¥ 218.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Peter Senge, who was associated with the "learning organization" concept, wrote a great cookbook for change management. |
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Oren Zuckerman (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
The Fifth Discipline brings together the theories and thoughts of many system thinkers. Senge's writing is fluent and inspiring, laying out the ideas behind the Learning Organization movement, System Dynamics, and System Thinking.
The basic idea is that groups of humans can not be treated as a mechanical systems (a giant clockwork mechanism), but rather as a living system. This is a simple thing to state, but not an easy thing to do. It is a complete shift of mind. The underlying concepts of living systems are feedback processes, interdependencies, and long term consequences (to name a few).
If you read this book, you will learn how to think in system terms, how to draw casual diagrams, and eventually - how to start and see the systems in your own life. This shift of mind will put you in a completely different place. Rather than a victim of the system around you, you will be able to see the patterns (in your behavior and in others), you will gain insights about the system behavior, and you would develop the ability to identify the "high leverage points" that will change the system's behavior.
A must-read for anyone which is a part of an organizations, or any social group. |
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Evans Barnhart (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
All in all this was a very informative book. It helps to bring down the walls between management and lower ranking employees. Instead of viewing the workplace as a number of individuals we get the opportunity to see the benefits of team learning. When everyone in a company is focused on a vision they will benefit and make their visions closer to a reality. I really enjoyed reading this book, Senge highlights many situations that are very applicable to the workplace. I would recommend this book to every manager that I have worked under in the past. Perhaps they could benefit from the idealogy of team learning, and adopt a vision that would benefit the long run and not just temporary goals. |
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Bill Pinches (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
An extremely insightful book on optimizing organizational life. Senge identifies several critical disciplines for organizations to develop: systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision, and team learning.
I had read several books on systems theory prior to this one, but this one outshines the others I have read due to its clarity. The chapters on finding leverage points in the system, the ability to see the forest and the trees, and personal mastery were particularly helpful to me. While he writes primarily for a business-oriented audience, everything in here is applicable to the church as an organization (which is, of course, my primary interest). A couple weeks spent with this book - reading it, digesting it, analyzing your own functioning in the system, and contemplating alternative ways of doing and being - is time extremely well spent. |
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Hena (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
This book is super good! I highly recommend it to everyone; managers, teachers, and students. Though it is a lengthy book, it isn't as hard as it seems. Being a student, I was kind of scared to read this book and was a little challenging to read at times, but for the most part it wasn't so bad. It is a very informational, very interesting book. I think this book is very insightful and I think it's very important that people read this book, as it will enhance "team building" skills, as well as will improve their organizational skills. I highly recommend this book to everyone! |
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