The fifth discipline, the art and practice of the learning organization
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"In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations - ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire." "The revised and updated Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book's inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders' New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future."--BOOK JACKET.
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Systems thinking represents a higher-order and integrative cognitive ability that often requires sustained and repeated exposure across multiple courses or learning experiences.
“This finding aligns with prior research suggesting that systems thinking represents a higher-order and integrative cognitive ability that often requires sustained and repeated exposure across multiple courses or learning experiences [26,28,34,36-38].”
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- Authors
- Senge, P. M.
- Affiliations
- George Washington University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Senge, Peter M.
- Venue
- Performance + Instruction
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1991-05
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 37-37
- ISSN
- 0027-7002 (ISSN-L)
- 0884-1985
- OpenAlex
- W2101157755
- Cited by
- 20,060
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- FWCI
- 246.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- eduq.info
- Licence
- Locations
- NSPI Journal (publishedVersion)
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- International Linear Collider (submittedVersion)
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Québec government) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Learning and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Change and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change
- Keywords
- learning organization, organizational learning, systems thinking, organizational change, leadership, collective aspirations, organizational culture, continuous learning
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