Five Disciplines by Peter Senge
Peter Senge believes that change is teaming while learning is a change. He believed that it is quite easy for the organizations to learn to change since we all are learners from deep inside. Senge wrote a book named ‘The Fifth Discipline’ in which he tried to destroy the illusion that the world has been created due to separate unrelated forces. According to Senge, building the learning organizations can be done through giving up the illusions. A learning organization is an organization where people expand their capacity to create the results they desire where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where all the collective aspirations are set free and where people are always learning how to learn together. Managers must detect the seven learning disabilities and make use of the Five Disciplines as antidotes to them.
Senge made use of the following components in his Five Disciplines model:
- Systems Thinking: This is an integrated Discipline that fuses the other Disciplines into a coherent body of theory and practice.
- Personal Mastery: People should approach life and work in the similar way as an artist would approach his art work.
- Mental Models: These are the deeply ingrained assumptions or mental images that reveal how to understand the world and take actions.
- Building Shared Vision: In the presence of the genuine vision people excel and learn, not forcible but by their own choice.
- Team Learning: This says that the team members engage themselves in a true dialogue with all their assumptions suspended.
All these Disciplines are required to be employed in man’s never ending quest of expanding the capacity of the organization to create its future. Learning Organizations are able to move the past mere survival learning to engage them into Generative Learning- a kind of learning that enhances the capacity for creation.
Written by: Matt
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