The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

I'm part of several organizations. They're are often serious conflicts that occur. Most of these events are vaguely dealt with by the chairman. A book like this,I've found to be quite essential. The general desparities being observed, are supported in the book. There're so many examples for peaceful resolution. I believe anyone working with the public;or an organization should read this book. This book gives so many strategies to improve the way in which you communicate your ideas.There's to much time being spent on avoidance, lack of participation, conflicts, and unresolvable issues.This book enpowers you to faciltate resolutions, with the left and right coloumns. As a result your managers are working together on the intended goals and outcome factors. I Love This Book! Thank You

Book was in good condition. What can I say, it was a textbook designated by the instructor.

Not the knowers of the Five Disciplines will benefit and thrive, but the doers of the Five Disciplines. This book helps people take the concepts from an intellectual understanding to a practical understanding - taking the concepts from theory into practice by providing examples of the material being applied in real situations.The fieldbook steers you toward deeper understanding of the concepts by providing other sources - recommended reading and also provides margin space to note your own thoughts and ideas as you use the fieldbook. There are numerous exercises to help develop skill in using the disciplines in your own company or organization.

Not a systems dynamics/theory/thinking beginner's book. Donella Meadow's "Thinking in Systems: A Primer" is an easier introduction. Senge's Field Guide is confusing with all the referrals to other books. It is also confusing with all the paper loops. Maybe because this is based on Jay Forrester's "Systems Dynamics." That group insists that what we learn from simple systems (hot stove = burn and pain) does not apply to complex systems. They claim that understanding complex systems requires a computer and modeling software. If that is true, perhaps Senge is trying explain more about systems than can be done in a book. There are also feel-good stories which I suspect are book-sales motivated. These remind me of the quick-fix guru consultants who Russell Ackoff derided.

A hands-on guide to creating a learning culture in organizations. This is my go-to resource for management and strategy. With case studies and opportunities for reflection, this isn't a book to read cover-to-cover as much as it is an intensely practical workbook. I come back to it often and go right to the section that is relevant now. Because the whole book is anchored in Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline framework, the pieces all fit together as a coherent whole, even where different authors are presenting the case studies.

Love, love, love this book! It is chock full of learning experiences that are applicable to almost any organization. As an HR professional I have gone back to this book repeatedly to get ideas for how to help struggling work groups. I lent it out a while back, and whoever I lent it to must have liked it as well, because they haven't returned it. So I purchased another copy.

This volume is one of the most useful books I have ever owned. I have worked for over 35 years in law enforcement, the Courts, prison and victim ministry and within the administrative bodies of he Catholic Church and the concepts presented by Professor Senge and his associates come up again and again! I cannot give this text sufficient stars to properly reflect its value.

This was pretty comprehensive, maybe too much so. Sometimes, less is more. But if you're looking for a lot more application, this is it.