The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning OrganizationAn MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations" -- corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world." |
Contents
PART I | 4 |
Give Me a Lever Long Enough and SingleHanded | 13 |
Prisoners of the System or Prisoners of Our Own Thinking? | 27 |
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization Peter M. Senge Limited preview - 2006 |
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization Peter M. Senge Limited preview - 2010 |
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