Bookshelf - High Output Management, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

PETER M. SENGE is the founding chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning and a senior lecturer at MIT. He is the co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, and Schools That Learn (part of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series) and has lectured extensively throughout the world. Understanding the principles of learning organizations will drive us in building effective organizational climate. The Fifth Discipline helps us in knowing how we can effectively modify the fundamental assumptions, the values, norms and some patterns of human behavior. The aim of this review is not to oppose Senge’s fundamental ideas but to insist on how significant his insights are. The book has five parts. Part I concentrates on “How our actions create our reality...and how we can change it”. Part II focus on “The Fifth Discipline: the cornerstone of the learning organization”. Part III puts across “The core disciplines: building the learning organization”, whereas the IV Part focuses on “Prototypes”. The book concludes with a logical flow of “Coda” (a conclusion).