For
Peter Senge (1990), change is teaming and learning is change. Thus, it is
possible for organizations to learn to change because "deep down, we are all
learners". In his book "The Fifth Discipline", Senge wants to destroy the
illusion that the world is created out of separate, unrelated forces. When
we give up this illusion, we can then build 'learning organizations', organizations
where people continually 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. Managers must learn to detect seven organizational
'learning disabilities' and use the "Five Disciplines" as antidotes to them.
The Five Disciplines of Senge
The five components in the model from Senge are:
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Systems Thinking. The integrative (fifth) discipline that fuses
the other 4 into a coherent body of theory and practice.
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Personal Mastery. People must regard their life and their work
such as an artist would regard a work of art.
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Mental Models. Deeply ingrained assumptions or mental images that
influence how we understand the world and how we take action.
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Building Shared Vision. If there is a genuine vision, people excel
and learn, not because they have to, but because they want to.
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Team Learning. Team-members participate in true dialogue. They
suspend their assumptions.
All these 5 disciplines must be employed in a never-ending quest to expand
the capacity of the organization to create its future. Learning Organizations
are those organizations that can go beyond survival learning, to perform generative
learning: a form of learning that enhances their capacity to create.
Book: Peter Senge
- The Fifth Discipline
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