The fifth discipline :
Material type: TextEdition: First editionDescription: viii, 424 pages : illustrationsISBN: 0385260946; 9780385260947; 0385260954; 9780385260954; 071269885X; 9780712698856; 0385469888; 9780385469883Subject(s): Organizational effectiveness | Teams in the workplace | Organization and Administration | Efficiency | Learning | Grupos de trabajoDDC classification: 658.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Pt 1. 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? -- Pt 2. 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 -- Pt 3. The core disciplines : building the learning organization. Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning -- Pt 4. 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 -- Pt 5. Coda. A sixth discipline? -- Rewriting the code -- The indivisible whole -- Appendixes. The learning disciplines -- Systems archetypes.
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."
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