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The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization is a book by Peter Senge (a senior lecturer at MIT) focusing on group problem solving using the systems thinking method in order to convert companies into learning organizations that learn to create results that matter as an organization.
Peter Senge stated in an interview that a learning organization is a group of people working together collectively to enhance their capacities to create results they really care about. [4] Senge popularized the concept of the learning organization through his book The Fifth Discipline .
Peter Senge was born in Stanford, California.He received a B.S. in Aerospace engineering from Stanford University.While at Stanford, Senge also studied philosophy. He later earned an M.S. in social systems modeling from MIT in 1972, as well as a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1978.
In 1990, Peter Senge published “The fifth discipline” [4] together with a field book intended to show practical applications. [5] Amongst four other disciplines in management, the fifth which was intended to be systems thinking, a skill highly appreciated by Senge and, according to him, missing in most top management teams.
Management cybernetics – Application of cybernetics to management and organizations; ... "General Systems Theory and Systems Research ... Peter Senge, (1990 ...
The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) is an American organization founded in 1997 by Peter Senge. It replaced the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT. From 1999 until 2016, SoL published its own journal, "Reflections".
Systems theory is manifest in the work of practitioners in many disciplines, for example the works of physician Alexander Bogdanov, biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, and sociologist Talcott Parsons; in the study of ecological systems by Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum; in Fritjof Capra's study of organizational theory; in the study of management by Peter Senge; in ...
Change methodologies include Peter Senge's concept of a "learning organization" expressed in The Fifth Discipline or Directive Communication's "corporate culture evolution". Changing culture takes time. Members need time to get used to the new ways. Organizations with a strong and specific culture are harder to change. [65]