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

A Better You!

Absolutely A Must Read.

Read and share the book with friends and colleagues, for a better everyone.

A book that everyone should read!

Amazing breakdown of seemingly complex concepts that are quite practical in everyday life. Not just professionally but personally!

How Refreshing

What a great book. It gave me hope that there might be a way out of the muck that most of corporate America is currently in. This lead me to loads of interesting work in related fields, and I'll always be grateful for having listened to it.

Senge's Five Disciplines

great book on five critical disciplines in business and life; however audible recording doesn't agree with new book, very frustrating.

Immediately applicable

In my opinion, wether you work with teams or not this is a must read. I will listen to it again and come back to it as necessary because this is fundamental, must understand, general knowledge for this, and the next century.

Great insights

The book offers great insights and food for thought. Especially loved the examples and visualizations, which made the ideas and concepts covered in the book crisp and easy to understand. Least favorite part is the quantum physics based explanation of collective thinking, but it did not affect the rest of the book for me. Looking forward to reading the "Fieldbook" now

Becoming a learning organization

It is true that organizations should always be learning. While the book was interesting, I felt like I was always waiting for some nugget. Overall, the concepts are solid, but I didn't think there was anything new for an experienced manager already working in a learning organization. I would recommend this book to new managers.

Outstanding

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

Yes, I really enjoyed listening rather then reading it as I felt I was more apart of the conversation

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Fifth Discipline?

beer game - and how I could relate to it.

What does Peter M. Senge bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

his passion and the way he provides the examples is more capturing.

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

I was moved in the beer game and continued all the way through.

Any additional comments?

I find it very difficult to read a book, my mind seems to read the page over and over again, like I skim over the words not taking them in. Thus I don't read any books.

This was a test for me and i'm hooked I actually loved every moment, and will not listen to a book a week.

Thank you.

It is not the last edition of the book

It does not include the updated information, therefore, it gets hard to follow compared to the last edition.

There is not a clear definition between chapters, just 4 sections

The books does the job to get the basic idea of what the author tends to transmit to the readers; however, it misses out some of the key ideas.

An existential look at problem solving.

it's a systematic look at causality and problem solving it has very simple terminology and few instances where you need to look up terms.