Senge P. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1994. — 576 p.From the bestselling author of The Fifth Discipline and his colleagues comes a step-by-step guide on how to build a learning organization in your own company. This participative book offers tools, techniques, exercises, ideas and stories to help put Senge's revolutionary theories into practice."Bridging the gap between text and context, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook offers everyone a deep and refreshing look at what work can be and should be. The authors ground their stories, examples, exercises in five conceptual touchstones - personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. And these disciplines accurately reveal three core tasks in leadership: looking at self, developing others, and seeing the larger picture in order to chart a meaningful course. Stories enliven the ideas while examples and exercises offer practical models to use in any organization. Generous side margins, different colored ink, and graphic icons are visual treats as well as immediate graphic guides. And the narrative references to related issues make reading the book more intuitive, more interesting. In fact, these physical details model the whole point of the book - that learning is essential for sustainable growth, for organizational and personal development." - Karen BorstRothe.Getting Started
Systems Thinking
Personal Mastery
Mental Models
Shared Vision
Team Learning
Arenas of Practice
Frontiers