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

would like unabridged and latest version

seemed overly simplified to shorten for audio. would like unabridged release and please update to latest version.

A most powerful listen

A very well thoughtful and organized book. The presentation on systems thinking and learning organizations fits right into my field of integral theory and process/humble consulting.

Not the book

Good audio that hits the points made in the book, but this is not an actual reading of the book text. It is a great accompaniment to the book.

This is an abridged version

The ideas are great, really intriguing, and normally I would give this book 5 stars. But this is an abridged version, apparently an old version, and nowhere is this fact stated. Also, only half the content is read by Mr. Senge, the rest by some anonymous guy.

On the other hand, the reviews of the complete book (Kindle edition) indicates that that version is too long, so maybe an abridged version is OK? But please inform me before I buy.

I wanted a book, not a lecture

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would only recommend this book if someone wanted a summary.

What did you like best about this story?

I love the concepts presented in this book.

How could the performance have been better?

I would have preferred the book to have been read. I thought the pausing and added insights were more lecture style. While that is not a bad thing, I wanted to hear the book, not a lecture.

Did The Fifth Discipline inspire you to do anything?

Buy the book.

Any additional comments?

I wish I could have listened to a section of this before I used up a credit on it. I would have simply purchased and read the book. I wanted to hear the book: Chapter 1…. Instead, it ended up being lecture style/one sided discussion style and I didn't like that. Pausing is different when lecturing as opposed to reading and it simply threw me off. Shoot. I will have to be more careful about reading reviews before I purchase an audiobook.

Good Tool for Organizational Leadership

A Good Tool for Organizational Leadership. The author provides a good overview of how systems thinking can help an organization achieve its goals.

Not bad, but not all Senge

The book was ok but the narration wasnt all Peter Senge and at times the flow was challenging. Overall the book was helpful but includes a lot of concepts that are unique in themselves. The message is good, but prescriptively it is a bit too packaged.

great take on learning and change within corporate

The examples of generic companies don't seem to hit home as well I said would if there were real companies and some understood that they don't allow for bill pointing out a real company but she will be nice to research some of the stuff that they actually point out for examples

Senge narrates only part of the program

Good program, that gives a comprehensive perspective. The fact that Peter Senge is not the narrator for the entire program should have been made clear.

AN OKAY SYNOPSIS

An okay synopsis of the topic of systems thinking. If you want a detailed overview of the topic you have to read the book. This abridged version just doesn't cut it