The Fifth Discipline

The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

By: Peter M. Senge

Narrated by: Peter M. Senge

Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Peter Senge's groundbreaking ideas on building organizations have made him a household name among corporate managers. His theories help businesses to clarify their goals, to defy the odds, to more clearly understand threats, and to recognize new opportunities. He introduces managers to a new source of competitive advantage, and offers a marvelously empowering approach to work.

Mastery of Senge's five disciplines enables managers to overcome their obstacles to growth and creates brave new futures for them and their companies. The five disciplines are drawn from science, spiritual wisdom, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought, and Senge's own work with top corporations that employ his methods. Listening to The Fifth Discipline provides a searching personal experience and a dramatic professional shift of mind.

©1994 Peter M. Senge (P)1994 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House Inc., All Rights Reserved

Great information on learning organizations

Serves as a very good introduction to what a learning organization entails. covers such things as systems thinking and team dialogues.
I would like to have had more information on how to go about implementing this type of structure.

Great refresher.

I had to read this as part of an assignment so it really isn't my first choice for personal reading material, however, the audio version was a quick and simple way of refreshing what I had read. Hearing the author read his work gave me a renewed enthusiasm for his ideas and a real desire to apply them to my own work place. This is well worth the time for any manager or supervisor.

Short enough to be listened to many times and ...

and dense enough to be worth doing so.

A great perspective on how team members can work towards what what they want as individuals while making the team better.

Eternal Advice... Timeless Wisdom

The depth of Senhe's insight is key to unlock humanity's challagne in organizational transformation let alone understanding

timeless lessons from a thought leader

I highly recommend it to anyone interested in business transformation, especially those with experience. it was published in the ninties which makes it powerful if you lived through them or have studied the lessons if the past.

Abridged Version

I did not realize that this was an abridged version until it was too late. I am very disappointed that I now unprepared for my doctoral course work because I was under the impression that this audiobook version features the complete, updated text. Please include this in the description so others do not fall into the same trap.

good book about system thinking

good introduction to the concept could have had more examples of situation besides the beer simulation

The best book on Learning Organization

Would you consider the audio edition of The Fifth Discipline to be better than the print version?

I personally get more out of readibgvalong and list Bing. The value is I seem to retain more information from th book that way.

What did you like best about this story?

Sergea Whoolwy strategy on continuous improvement of the learning organization is in my humble opinion are the best ideas and they are ideas that work.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Every chapter of this book has information that is relevant and inspiring as to how to move an individual and the organization towards continuous improvement. The whole book is the best in the topic.

Any additional comments?

I loved the book. I am in the police profession and policing is very tradition and this is how we always have done status quo mentality. We need to change this in th policing profession if we are to improve our strategies operations and tactics and understand how they impact the moral, mental and physical levels of police work and how it effects the people we protect and serve.

Timeless principles summarized into a few hours.

This is a great summary of the key principles.
Almost every new page revealed very interesting insights. The author takes into consideratio the human side of implementing the principles within your organization.

Fifth Discipline

A excellent teaching tool for any organization on hoe to unify under system thinking, shared vision, personal mastery, mental models and team learning.