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RECORD NUMBER: 2 OF 8Main Title | Fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization / | |||||||||||
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Author | Senge, Peter M. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Doubleday/Currency, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1994 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 31914487 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0385260954 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Organizational effectiveness ; Work groups ; Organization and Administration ; Efficiency ; Learning ; Educational Environment--ericd ; School Organization--ericd | |||||||||||
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Edition | A Currency paperback. | |||||||||||
Collation | xxiii, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. {391}-409) and index. |
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Contents Notes | How our actions create our reality ... and how we can change it. "Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world" -- Does your organization have a learning disability? -- Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- The fifth discipline: the cornerstone of the learning organization. The laws of the fifth discipline -- A shift of mind -- Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- The principle of leverage -- The art of seeing the forest and the trees -- The core disciplines: building the learning organization. Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning -- Prototypes. Openness -- Localness -- A manager's time -- Ending the war between work and family -- Microworlds: the technology of the learning organization -- The leader's new work -- Coda. A sixth discipline? -- Rewriting the code -- The indivisible whole -- Appendix 1: The learning disciplines -- Appendix 2: Systems archetypes. |