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In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your 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 Davidson, author Peter M. Senge has found a means of creatinga "learning organization." In THE FIFTH D I SC I P L I N E , he draws the blueprints 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 acoherent 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"
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FIFTH DISCIPLINETHE ART AND PRACTICE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION P e t e r M. S e n g e

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Permission toreprint Navajo sand painting given by the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Photography by Kay V. Weist. The Library of Congress has cataloged the Currency hardcover edition as follows: Senge, Peter M. The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization/Peter M. Senge. — 1st ed. p. cm. "A Currency book"—T.p. verso. 1. Organizational effectiveness.2. Work groups. I. Title. II. Title: Learning organization. HD58.9.S46 1994 658.4-dc20 90-2991 CIP ISBN 0-385-26095-4 Copyright © 1990 by Peter M. Senge Introduction to the Paperback Edition and Some Tips for First-Time Readers copyright © 1994 by Peter M. Senge All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America

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CONTENTS

Introduction to the PaperbackEdition Some Tips for First-Time Readers

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PART I HOW OUR ACTIONS CREATE OUR REALITY . . . AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT 1 "Give Me a Lever Long Enough … and Single-Handed I Can Move the World" 3 2 Does Your Organization Have a Learning Disability? 17 3 Prisoners of the System, or Prisoners of Our Own Thinking? 27

PART II THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION 574 The Laws of the Fifth Discipline 68 5 A Shift of Mind 6 Nature's Templates: Identifying the Patterns 93 That Control Events 114 7 The Principle of Leverage 127 8 The Art of Seeing the Forest and the Trees

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PART I I I THE CORE DISCIPLINES: BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION 9 10 11 12 Personal Mastery Mental Models Shared Vision Team Learning 139 174 205 233PART IV PROTOTYPES 13 14 15 16 17 18 Openness 273 Localness 287 A Manager's Time 302 Ending the War Between Work and Family 306 Microworlds: The Technology of the Learning Organization 313 The Leader's New Work 339 PART CODA 19 A Sixth Discipline? 20 Rewriting the Code 21 The Indivisible Whole Appendix 1. The Learning Disciplines Appendix 2. Systems Archetypes Notes Acknowledgments Index V 363 364...