THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELDBOOK is the practical how-to companion to Peter Senge's groundbreaking 1990's work THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE, in which he introduced and explained his concept of "the learning organization," an idea that greatly impressed the business community, especially those in management and organization. Senge believes that the company ...
A classic in business, Peter Senge's THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE promotes the idea of "the learning corporation." Since change is inevitable, and since those who do not respond well to change will fail, Senge feels it is incumbent upon companies to be resilient, to keep themselves new, and, most importantly, to develop their employees. A company with an ...
After encouraging executives to create proactive "learning organizations" in the FIFTH DISCIPLINE and THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELDBOOK, the authors suggest how businesspeople should navigate through the problems that accompany rapid change.
This guide to leadership, based on a Jungian concept called "synchronicity", describes how effective leadership depends on shifts in the way we view the world, understand relationships and make commitments.
"Presence" chronicles the year-long meeting between MIT scientists and scholars in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and explains how the group determined why profound collective change occurs.
Leading management guru Peter M Senge defines the five business 'disciplines' which together help to build learning organizations. These companies will be the successful ones in the coming decade because of their ability to learn, to absorb new ideas, theories and practices at all employee levels and use them to competitive advantage. Shared ...
Written by bestselling author and MIT professor Senge and his Fifth Discipline team, this new addition to The Fifth Discipline Resource Book series offers practical advice for educators, administrators, and parents on how to apply learning organization principles to help strengthen and rebuild schools.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, television, air travel and satellites has woven a network of communications which puts each part of the world into almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at every moment, a general feeling that communication is ...
Brimming with inspiring stories from around the globe, this work shows that ordinary people at every level within an organization have the ability and innovative spirit to do extraordinary things that can result in unprecedented solutions in an intensely interdependent world.
As Aristotle put it long ago, human beings are distinguished from other species by our ability to use language. Yet too often, at our jobs and in our business, we don't listen to one another. Invested in our views, we explain when we should inquire. Caught up in our own preconceptions, we disguise our feelings and fears, and hide our very meaning. ...
Not all children learn the same way. This book explains the six patterns of learning and teaches parents how to identify their child's pattern so they can help them think, learn, and communicate to the best of their ability. The book also provides specific guidelines to enhance communication with children of each pattern.
In this book, Kahane draws on his amazingly rich experience working with corporate, government and civil society leaders all over the world to explain why our ordinary way of solving problems - expert-driven, piecemeal, and best practice - cannot work for solving the complex problems we face. These problems include our communities and ...
Over and over, major multinational companies have found that their previous successes did not teach them how to be consistently successful. They routinely discard successful processes instead of studying and replicating them in other parts of the organization. Why? This text seeks to explain the reasons, with the author suggesting that they are ...
"Leading Consciously" addresses the issues of motivation, decision-making, communication, time management, effective learning, work psychology, organizational development, and self-mastery. The author weaves together the insights of some of the most remarkable leaders of the world whose lives embody great truths about leadership and self ...
One of the most difficult problems for managers to address is substandard work, where performance is weak enough to warrant improvement but not so bad as to justify termination. Too often, managers react by developing "workarounds," such as shifting the workload to the high performers. After all, they don't have time to supply corrections in the ...
In "The Living Company", the man who first introduced the revolutionary concept of the learning organization turns his attention to identifying the critical characteristics of organizational longevity. The book speaks to everyone trying to adapt to a turbulent business environment.
Creative collaboration involves thinking and working together with people who have different views and perspectives so as to come up with breakthrough solutions. This book focuses on the creative uses of collaboration and explains how to view collaboration from varying points of view.
Two top thinkers discuss emotional intelligence in business in this original audio program created by "New York Times" bestselling author Daniel Goleman
Reengineering is out! The hottest topic in business today is learning--with learning organization leader Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, leading the way. This revolutionary approach to the mind-body connection in business combines the classic wisdom of the martial art aikido, the no-holds-barred exploration of Outward Bound, and the ...
A classic in business, Peter Senge's THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE promotes the idea of "the learning corporation." Since change is inevitable, and since those who do not respond well to change will fail, Senge feels it is incumbent upon companies to be resilient, to keep themselves new, and, most importantly, to develop their employees. A company with an ...
This is the first biography of Robert Greenleaf that helps readers understand, for the first time, the sources of Greenleaf's servant leadership ideas in the context of his own life. "A Life Of Servant Leadership" presents a summary of key servant leadership ideas and explains Greenleaf's transferable strategies for being effective in an imperfect ...
Offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term, as well as suggestions, advice, cautions and warnings based on the experience of people who have already followed the path suggested by the author in "The Fifth Discipline". The central message of the text is that learning is the only sustainable ...
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