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The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Peter M. Senge
 Description and Reviews From The Publisher: 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:
An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" — corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world." This 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. Reviews "Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization." —Fortune Magazine
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