The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization: Second edition

初版も大きな衝撃があったが、初版に新たに実践的な手法を書き加えた改訂版。２００６年に出版されたときから大きな話題になった。 ドラッカー亡き後、経営学の中心にあって、「学習する組織」あるいは「組織学習」という理念で、人間が組織を創り、その人間が志。自分への謙虚さ､対話、チーム学習、固定概念の打破等で５つのＤｉｓｃｉｐｌｉｎｅ（日本語「稽古」に近いかも知れない）を修得すること説いている。翻訳も出たが、著者の精神を読み取るために是非原書で読んで欲しい１冊である。 低迷している日本経済を建て直すヒントがこの本にあるようだ。

I ordered this book for a Masters level program I'm taking. I'm pleased this is one of my textbooks, as I will use it forever more! Great content.

Good book

"The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization" by Peter M. Senge was a book assigned to me for my Quality Control class and I have to say that this book has great concepts of improving your business through learning organization. Within the learning organization Senge points out five disciplines; Personal Mastery, Mental Models, Shared Vision, Team Learning and Systems Thinking being the fifth discipline. Peter M Senge believes that a learning organization must achieve all five disciplines in order to better improve the organization. Senge also mentions five organizational disabilities that prevent a company from being successful. Peter Senge does a great job in deeply explaining all five disciplines. One thing I really like about this book is how Senge offers real life scenario to help him get his point across. One scenario that really got my interest was the Beer Game scenario. It's a pretty long scenario but well worth it to understand Senge's point that systems are interdependent of each. Meaning that systems will similarly think in qualitative terms. A key factor I got from this scenario is that we must break the way that systems independently think of their own decisions. The organization must think as a whole and must keep in mind how their decisions affect the rest of the system. Overall this book is a little complicated to understand at moments but contains very interesting concepts of improving an organization. In my opinion, this book is written for individuals in a managerial type position that have the power in greatly influencing their business decisions. I recommend this book to any individual in any industry that wants to better their organization.

A classic book which lays the foundation for building learning organisations and knowledge management.