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  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (Oct 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385260954
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385260954
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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"Forget your old, tired ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization." -- "Fortune Magazine,"

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In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your organisation's ability to learn faster than its competitors. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thought Leadership, and Breakthrough ideas , 27 May 2007
By Stephen Parry "Author of Sense and Respond" (Lean Service Transformation Designer London) - See all my reviews
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Introducing Systems Thinking to Business People, 30 May 2004
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Thinking about how one thing affects another either comes naturally to you or it doesn't. For most people it is the latter. For these people, The Fifth Discipline is a wonderful gift.

Our emotions tell us to do one thing, and that one thing is usually not in our own best interest.

I had heard clients of mine talk about the beer game, and I was delighted to see it described in this book.

For the average reader, this book will make you expert enough in systems thinking to be much more successful with your decisions. If you feel that you would like more help in this area, please read The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. It is a very helpful companion book that will give you practical advice for implementing what you learn in this book. Follow that up with The Dance of Change which focuses on how to sustain a learning organization.

If you have colleagues or friends who often make decisions that do not turn out well, it may be because they do not understand how to think about business as a system. Give them this book, and you will have done the person a great favor. Follow-up by discussing what they have learned, and help them with an exercise or two from the Fieldbook. You'll be glad you did.

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5.0 out of 5 stars True wisdom inside, 29 Nov 2006
By Gary Sage "gsage.com" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Over 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.
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