Jan 30, 2005 · Peter Senge describes himself as an 'idealistic pragmatist'. This orientation has allowed him to explore and advocate some quite ‘utopian’ and abstract ideas (especially …

Note: This article is a shortened version of P. Senge, Leading Learning Organizations (MIT Center for Organizational Learning Research Monograph), (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Center for …

Senge's book outlines five interrelated disciplines that organizations must master to become truly adaptive and innovative. The five disciplines are personal mastery, mental models, shared …

MENTAL MODELS • “Deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations or even pictures or images that influence how we understand and interact with the world. Transforming a system is really …

For Peter Senge, real learning gets to the heart of what it is to be human. We become able to re-create ourselves. This applies to both individuals and organizations. Thus, for a ‘learning …

Peter Senge describes himself as an ‘idealistic pragmatist’. This orientation has allowed him to explore and advocate some quite ‘utopian’ and abstract ideas (especially around systems …

These notes are from Peter M. Senge’s The Fifth Discipline. They are meant for classroom discussion purposes--and may well also serve as reminders of particularly relevant or …