Publisher: Doubleday, 1994, 423 pages
ISBN: 0-385-26095-4
Keywords: Human Resources
In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is you organization's ability to learn faster than its competition.
Founder and Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, which boasts such members as Intel, Ford, Herman Miller, and Harley Davidison, author Peter M. Senge has found a means of creating a "learning organization." In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blue prints for an organization where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. The Fifth Discipline fuses these features into a coherent body of theory and practice, making the whole of an organization more effective than the sum of its parts.
Company after company. from Intel to AT&T to Procter & Gamble to Coopers and Lybrand, have adopted the disciplines of the learning organization to rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" embedded in how we think and work together. Mastering the disciplines will:
The Currency paperback edition contains a new introduction, which welcomes readers to the ever-expanding community of learners united by their passionate belief in these ideas and helps peole encountering this work for the first time.
The reference work on learning organisations. If you manage to read this drivel, good luck.
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