Online Shop
|
The Fifth DisciplineSnagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here!  List Price: £20.00 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £13.99 You Save: £6.01 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9781905211203 Edition: 2nd Revised edition ISBN: 1905211201 Label: Random House Business Books Manufacturer: Random House Business Books Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: April 06, 2006 Publisher: Random House Business Books Studio: Random House Business Books Related Items:
Average Rating:
 Rating: - Don't Become Road Kill!The Fifth Discipline is an excellent book exploring ways for corporations to improve long-term competitiveness by developing flexible learning methods and empowering employees. This work is well researched with clear useable methodologies. Written almost two decades ago, many corporations are still striving to become "learning organizations" today. As to be expected, successes in this endeavor vary widely. The need for leaning organizations is more important than ever as technology and society change at a breakneck pace. Many of the concepts and ideas in this book are highly applicable today. Corporations with managers willing to get out of their collective boxes and apply systems thinking to become true learning organizations will have the best opportunity to survive and prosper. Corporations unwilling (or unable) to become learning organizations may become road kill on the super highway. The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide To: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking Rating: - Thought Leadership, and Breakthrough ideas I found this book highly simulating but required heavy study to transfer the ideas into the working environment. I found the framework was incomplete especially around the issues of creating a learning environment. Senges' framework for Systems is best described in terms of 'systems dynamics' which leads onto a more developed theory by others on system complexity and emergence. He describes what might be an end state without detailing how to get there, the later follow up field book on tools and methods now fills this gap neatly. Both books together are perfect. This book sets out theory very well, it also provides Thought Leadership, Breakthrough ideas and Inspiration. Its well written and enjoyable. Rating: - True wisdom insideOver 15 years and a few hundred more pages later this book remains number one on the list of management must reads. Systems thinking remains, in my opinion the way to go and the idea of learning organizations is still valid today. What is really special here is the idea that it's all about people. Some say the concepts are a bit too "new age" and Senge acknowledges this and admits that the term "carries a lot of baggage". W Edwards Deming spoke of a new economic age which was his terminology. Great book, will alway be near at hand for me.  Try searching the Internet for "The Fifth Discipline" or Ebay for "The Fifth Discipline". You might also be interested in the following great products:
|