| Description |
xxiii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
How actions create our reality ... and how we can change it. "Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world" -- Does your organization have a learning disability? -- Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- The fifth discipline: the cornerstone of the learning organization. The laws of the fifth discipline -- A shift of mind -- Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- The principle of leverage -- The art of seeing the forest and the trees -- The core disciplines: building the learning organization. Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning -- Prototypes. Openness -- Localness -- A manager's time -- Ending the war between work and family -- Microworlds: the technology of the learning organization -- The leader's new work -- Coda. A sixth discipline? -- Rewriting the code -- The indivisible whole -- Appendix 1: The learning disciplines -- Appendix 2: Systems archetypes |
| Summary |
An 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." |
| Analysis |
Organizational change |
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Organizational effectiveness |
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Participative management |
| Notes |
First published: Doubleday/Currency, 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-409) and index |
| Subject |
Organizational effectiveness.
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Organizational learning.
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School management and organization.
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Teams in the workplace.
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Decision Making, Organizational.
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Organization and Development
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Organizational Innovation.
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Efficiency, Organizational.
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Efficiency.
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Group Processes.
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Institutional Management Teams.
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Learning.
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Organization and Administration.
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Organizational Innovation.
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Organizations.
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| LC no. |
90002991 |
| ISBN |
0091827264 |
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0385260946 |
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0385260954 |
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